On Mon, 29 May 1995 19:01:20 -0400 you wrote:
>Having just gotten back from a weekend vacation, I went through all of the
>mail that I had on the Y-chromosome and was struck by something no one
>mentioned. Friday, it didn't occur to me either, but with my penchant for
>explaining the flood it should have! It is amazing how we can all grab a
>hold of a given set of assumptions and not see the error in the assumption.
[...]
>Stephen Jones wrote:
>"If its true, a great deal. It would show that homo sapiens is
>uniquely very, very recent, as the Bible indicates he is. "150,000"
>years is a geological instant. It would also show there is a major
>discontinuity between ape and man, as Christianity has always
>maintained. This would be a blow to Darwinian theories of human
>evolution."
>**endquote**
>
>What struck me while thinking about this problem this weekend, was that as
>far as Christianity is concerned the Y-chromosome and Mitochondrial studies
>do not logically support the existence of Adam and Eve. According to the
>Scripture, all men are descended from Noah prior to Adam and yet none of us
>mentioned this important little fact.
Actually scripture does not say this. The "whole world" is later
defined by the Table of Nations in Gen 10. Interestingly, Paul's
theology
is based on Adam as our common ancestor, not Noah.
>As to the Mitochondria, (assuming that
>conventional wisdom is correct and it is passed on from mother to offspring),
>the Eve theory simply marks the time when the three wives of Noah's son's had
>a common ancestor. We have no idea how many generations back that might have
>been. It might have only been one generation back if they were sisters
>
>Thus once again, I would contend that it is extremely important for
>Christianity to have an explanation of the flood which fits the data.
Disagree Glenn. The Flood may be important, but it is not "extremely
important". At least not to most Christians.
Stephen