Human DNA variation linked to "Biblical Event" Timeline.

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http://www.icr.org/article/human-dna-variation-linked-biblical/

Each person is different, and each, except an identical twin, has unique DNA differences. These differences can be traced across global populations and ethnic groups. Furthermore, recent research provides interesting insight about the approximate time that these DNA differences entered the human race.

A new study reported in the journal Science has advanced our knowledge of rare DNA variation associated with gene regions in the human genome.[SIZE=11.25px]1[/SIZE] By applying a demographics-based model to the data, researchers discovered that the human genome began to rapidly diversify about 5,000 years ago. Remarkably, this data coincides closely with biblical models of rapid diversification of humans after the global flood.
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Not to bag on any hopeful conclusions you might have from the study, but consider the source (of the article, not the study).

Now, I'm not an expert in this field, but this line smacks to me as very dishonest.

Old-earth proponents now have a new challenge: to explain why—after millions of years of hardly any genetic variation among modern humans—human genomic diversity exploded only within the last five thousand years?
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Additionally, various different significant genetic events at various points in our recent history is not that significant. In other words, this is not the only one, and while again I'm not an expert and haven't dived into the study, it doesn't *sound* to me as quite so groundbreakingly stunning as ICR would understandably like to make it out as.

As an aside, I have been sloughing my way through a very well-regarded, but very dry summary of our modern understanding of the stories of the various modern species of humans. It's a real compendium of information from one of the foremost experts in the field (which may explain the dryness):

Lone Survivors: How We Came to Be the Only Humans on Earth (Chris Stringer)

If you're at all interested in this stuff, Power, I'd really recommend it!

 
zoogs said:
Not to bag on any hopeful conclusions you might have from the study, but consider the source (of the article, not the study).

Now, I'm not an expert in this field, but this line smacks to me as very dishonest.

Old-earth proponents now have a new challenge: to explain why—after millions of years of hardly any genetic variation among modern humans—human genomic diversity exploded only within the last five thousand years?
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Additionally, various different significant genetic events at various points in our recent history is not that significant. In other words, this is not the only one, and while again I'm not an expert and haven't dived into the study, it doesn't *sound* to me as quite so groundbreakingly stunning as ICR would understandably like to make it out as.

As an aside, I have been sloughing my way through a very well-regarded, but very dry summary of our modern understanding of the stories of the various modern species of humans. It's a real compendium of information from one of the foremost experts in the field (which may explain the dryness):

Lone Survivors: How We Came to Be the Only Humans on Earth (Chris Stringer)

If you're at all interested in this stuff, Power, I'd really recommend it!
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Well I feel that when people sit on one side or the other, they always consider the source considering every one that publishes articles and news or what not has an agenda. So I always consider the source, yes.

Honestly for the benefit of the posters on here, I never dig very deep. I take people at their word almost all the time unless it's a farfetched idea such as the dude that claims to have found the Ark of the Covenant and only he was given the ability to know and see where the location was blah blah blah...

ZRod said:
I'll just ask a question. Do you believe in creation T?
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Absolutely, Yes.

I actually believe that the Big Bang was God's "How" to the whole start of everything. I've always thought that a lot of Christians hate the idea of a Big Bang in terms of how the Earth/Universe started. However, like I just stated, I think of it as the means of creation in how God brought everything about, if that makes sense.

Creator? = Yes, God

How? = Big Bang

Why? = I don't need to know

^^^ My view in short

 
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