Evidence that populations descended from the 16 grandsons of Noah (page 2)

hillary_step

Personally, I think it is absolutely outrageous that Nasa would send a space craft and have it land on Elvis Presley's head. What did he do to them?

HS

toreador

Maybe Nasa stepped on his blue seude shoes.

rem

Interesting. Now where is the cooborating evidence that all animal life decended from recent stocks in the Middle East?

rem

asleif_dufansdottir

Secular history gives much evidence to show that the survivors of Noah?s Flood were real historical figures, whose names were indelibly carved on much of the ancient world ?

You have been found guilty of propogating mindless crap. You are hereby sentenced to take no less than 2 classes in physical anthropology taught by those with an understanding of the genetics involved, from approved institutions. (here's a clue...it's not secular history that deals with such things )

Edited because I forgot...

Bottle necking of the gene pool has happened a couple times in human evolution. This is typical of slow breeding species. To interpret this phenomenon that genetisists say happened the last time hundreds of thousands of years ago as proof of the Flood it patent intellectual dishonesty.

I thought they considered the plague die-off in Europe in the 14th c a bottleneck?

Goshawk

>>I thought they considered the plague die-off in Europe in the 14th c a bottleneck?

If memory serves, the event mentioned was in relation to a certain gentic group of people having a resistance to the AIDS virus. One of the possibilities suggested was a geographic localized bottleneck in Europe associated with the survivors of the plague (black death) episodes. Decendants of this group have a statistically higher resistance to HIV.

Goshawk

badboy

I believe the gene was called CR5 or something like that.

AlanB

And which of Noah's sons do the Navaho, the Australian aborigines, the Zulu in Africa, and the Basque in Europe come from?????

Leolai,

Interesting point, not to mention the Chinese, many of these are language isolates and some traditional folklore of the Gauls for example suggests the Basques were already residing in western Europe before the gauls arrived. There are many examples of language isolates that suggest older races of people who may also have survived whatever cataclysm the flood myths are based around.

From the Noah story perspective the survivors may have considered that the entire world had been destroyed and perhaps there were descendants who later came to dominate the populations of the world.

I feel it is nieve to believe that if there is truth in the Genesis account (as there often is) that it is the cute story of the ark and animals going in two by two as we were led to believe as children. However there are similar tales all around the earth, although some survived in caves and mountains. All fascinating stuff.

A

xjw_b12

Geez. Where is Farkel when you need him?

Leolaia

The Flood myth may just be a folkloric archetype that is universal not because of an actual event but because of something in the human psyche and culture. On the other hand, it is true that (as archeological excavations have shown) that much of the world's population in 12000 - 9000 BC lived in coastal areas; it was through coastal routes that ppl migrated so rapidly (i.e. within 40,000 years) throughout Asia, Australasia, and America. And interestingly at that time of global warming after the ice age, most coastal areas were thoroughly inundated as water levels rose. That could have left some impact on human folklore. However, the Mesopotamian flood myth (and the biblical version in turn) may have more to do with the seasonal flooding of the Tigris and Euphrates.

Buster

To accept the account of the flood, one would first need to rationalize another genetic reality: The Y-chromosome is passed, intact, down thru all the male members in a line. It was this chromosome that scientists used some few years ago to confirm the common ancestry of the Ethiopian Jews.

That is to say that all men today would have the identical Y-chromosome. We don't.

Evidence that populations descended from the 16 grandsons of Noah

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