The mother of all living.
The Bible claims to be the history book of the universe.
The Bible is extremely clear when it comes to human origins.
Genesis 1 27 says so God created man in his own image in the
image of God created.
He him male and female created he them.
Jesus Christ himself in Mark 10 6 said but from the beginning
of the creation God made the male and female.
God created the first two humans Adam and Eve just thousands
of years ago.
1 Corinthians 15 45 says and so it is written the first man
Adam was made a living soul.
The last Adam was made a quickening spirit and Genesis 3 20
says in Adam called his wife's name Eve because she was the
mother of all living.
The Bible tells us that man was specially created and did
not come about through evolutionary processes humans are
an independent creation made in the image of God and are
not related to any other form of life including the great
apes. If the Bible's claim of human origins is indeed true.
We should be able to test its claims to the empirical scientific
data. We have actually discovered our first couple in our
genetics. We have two amazing DNA sections known as the uni
parentally inherited DNA compartments these important pieces
of DNA can answer this question of ancestry and tell us whether
the Bible's account of human origins is true or not our mitochondrial
DNA is the non recombining DNA compartment that we only
get from our mothers and the Y chromosome another non recombining
piece of DNA.
We only get from our fathers in the process of creating sperm
and egg cells chromosomes line up and exchange genetic information.
This is recombination what this means is that offspring will
have different combinations of genes on each of its chromosomes
than its parents had this is an important way to generate
genetic variety in this episode.
We will focus primarily on the mitochondrial DNA the mitochondrial
DNA does not have a partner to recombine with this is why
these unique pieces of DNA the Y chromosome and the mitochondrial
DNA get passed on nearly unchanged from generation to generation
we will focus on the details of the Y chromosome in a future
episode the mitochondrial DNA and the Y chromosome give us
a way to look deep into the past and answer the important
question of ancestry those that hold to deep time evolution
and reject a biblical creation model of ancestry have based
their dates off of indirect lines of evidence they use the
assumption-based method and as a result end up calibrating
the data the molecular clock which we've mentioned before
is based on the idea that mutations occur in empty DNA at a
pretty regular rate but since that rate of change isn't the
same across all of humanity the clock needs to be calibrated
the clock needs to be calibrated the other non recombining
stretch of DNA the Y chromosome and when it comes to how far
back this Y chromosome goes the latest molecular clock calibrations
calibrations calibrations they assume common ancestry they
assume human evolution is true and they assume deep time and
then they calibrate the data with the assumptions of their
paradigm they will say mitochondrial Eve lived about 200,000
years ago in Africa this is based off of geology and archaeology
indirect lines of evidence they are not necessarily determining
this answer based off direct genetic evidence we can measure
how quickly DNA changes or mutates over time for example if
we were to look at my DNA and my kids DNA or my DNA and my
parents DNA we would see genetic differences mistakes happen
from generation to generation in mitochondrial DNA mistakes
occur and when we measure the rate of this change we find
that it is fast a lot faster than secular evolutionists would
have expected or predicted we can take grandmothers and
granddaughters or we can even take two ladies who we know
share a common great-great-great grandmother in the distant
past we can look at their DNA sequences their mitochondrial
DNA sequences and by comparing them we can determine a mutation
rate this is through straightforward and empirical means
the answer we have is very much inconsistent with deep time
evolution and universal common ancestry the rate is far too
fast as has been indicated the number of DNA differences and
also the mutation rate itself fits perfectly with the biblical
model of ancestry the data that we have for this specific
uni-parentally inherited DNA compartment has actually led
to an active research program in determining the history of
civilization and even making novel testable predictions on
mutation rates in people groups whose rates have not yet been
measured and the results have been fascinating these amazing
results have been possible simply because the reality is
that the history of Humanity only goes back 6,000 years.
There did not have to be evidence for one female ancestor
of all people on the planet today Eve the mother of us all
has a unique piece of DNA that is exactly what we would
expect if the Genesis account of human origins were true there
was every conceivable reason to have learned that this unique
piece of DNA this mitochondrial DNA ancestor was not so unique
this mitochondrial DNA ancestor could have shared many lines
with chimpanzees if we really did share relationship with them
if human evolution were true and humans were indeed related
to the great ape this should have been reflective in the mitochondrial
DNA. Stay tuned for an episode focusing primarily on the
Y chromosome.
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