RE: AIG pontificates on Eve

http://www.answersingenesis.org/tj/v12/i1/eve.asp notes 3 & 4.

Jon Tandy

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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
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