Brit-Am Anthropology and DNA Update
20 June, 2022; 21 Sivan, 5782.
Contents:
1. Degeneration in Place of Evolution?
2. Recent Origin of Humans.
3. Three Main Ancestral Groupings of Manking Parallel to Three Sons of Noah?
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1. Degeneration in Place of Evolution?
How did all the different 'races' arise (from Noah's family)?
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Extract:
Sometimes we see evidence of degeneration that is hard to explain. For instance, when Europeans arrived in Tasmania, the Aborigines there Image by Caleb Salisbury 16. Wieland, C., The Bible and interracial marriage, Creation 34(1):20-22, 2011; creation. com/interracial.238 ~ Chapter 18 had the simplest technology known. They caught no fish, and did not usually make clothes. Yet recent archaeological discoveries suggest that earlier generations had more knowledge and equipment. Archaeologist Rhys Jones believes that in the Tasmanian Aborigines, distant past these people had equipment to sew skins into complex clothes. This contrasts with the observations in the early 1800s that they just slung skins over their shoulders. It also appears that they were in fact catching and eating fish in the past, but when Europeans arrived, they had not been doing this for some time.17,18 So technology is not always retained and built upon, but can be lost or abandoned. Animist peoples live in fear of evil spirits and often invent taboos against healthy practices like washing, and eating various nutritious foods.
7. Jones, R., Tasmania's Ice-Age hunters, Australian Geographic 8:26-45, 1987. 18. Jones, R., The Tasmanian paradox; in: Wright, R.V.S. (Ed.), Stone Tools as Cultural Markers, Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, 1977.
How does the fact that human beings possess some Neanderthal DNA impact creationism?
https://www.gotquestions.org/Neanderthal-DNA.html
It was not uncommon, in the 19th century, for scientists to claim that people of African descent were genetically closer to gorillas than they were to white men, Darwin wrote as much in The Descent of Man. Are we doing the same to Neanderthals, assuming that they were inferior, stupid, or subhuman when they were not?
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2. Recent Origin of Humans
Races and Human Genetic Variation
https://creation.com/media-center/youtube/races-and-human-genetic-variation
Some biologists have remarked that if you sequenced the DNA instruction of two humans on opposite sides of the globe they'd have less change in their DNA than two chimps on the same mountain in Africa.
.... Since the human race has relatively low genetic variety that means it must have originated recently. The racial groups have not therefore evolved independently over long periods of time. These discoveries are consistent with the bible's timeframe, whereby the human race originated from a single set of parents, only thousands of years ago and the people groups have originated since then.
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3. Three Main Ancestral Groupings of Manking Parallel to Three Sons of Noah?
Adam, Eve and Noah vs Modern Genetics
by Dr Robert W. Carter
https://creation.com/noah-and-genetics
. The ABO blood group is a textbook example of a gene with more than two versions.3 There are three main versions of the blood type gene (A, B, and O). However, many, but not all, people with type O blood carry something that looks very much like a mutant A (the mutation prevents the manufacturing of the type A trait on the outside of cells). So here is a gene with more than two versions, but one of the main versions is clearly a mutation. This is true for many other genes, although, as usual, there are exceptions. The important take home point is that essentially all of the genetic variation among people today could have been carried within two people, if you discount mutations that occurred after our dispersion across the globe. .... there are three main mitochondrial DNA lineages found across the world. The evolutionists have labeled these lines 'M', 'N', and 'R', .... We have already learned that there are three main lineages of mtDNA. We now add the fact that these three lineages are more or less randomly distributed across the world. Also, the various mutations within each of the three main families of mtDNA are geographically specific as well.11 In other words, as the three mixed mitochondrial lines were carried along with the Y chromosome dispersal, each line in each area began to pick up new mutations