From AIG this week ...
Q: Why would evolutionists be interested in Eve?
A: Over recent years, scientists have conducted a lot of research on DNA that is found in the mitochondria of a cell. This DNA is only inherited through females. By comparing mutations (or mistakes) in the DNA of people worldwide, scientists came to a startling conclusion—it looks as if all people living today are descended from one woman … and scientists have called her Eve!
Yet there’s a remarkable new twist.
Based upon mutation rates, scientists once claimed that this ancestral Eve lived hundreds of thousands of years ago. But a more recent study claims that the rate of mutations in man is actually twenty times higher than originally estimated. What does this mean? Using this new figure for mutation rates, the ancestral “mother of all,” as they call her, lived a mere 6,000 years ago!
Of course, the evolutionary scientists don’t accept this new figure, but it’s no surprise to creationists that this research supports the Bible’s teaching that there was a first woman, Eve, created about 6,000 years ago.
Burgy
Received on Sat, 27 May 2006 22:25:44 GMT
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