True Science Confirms The Account Of Noah's Ark In The Word Of God [Spirituality & Religion]

@LucyGray What I find very interesting in the male DNA in humans goes back to about 4500 years ago. The female DNA goes back about 6000 years ago.

@hippyjoe1955 I wonder why that gap - I would guess it's simply a matter of many specimens with sufficiently intact DNA to test accurately.

What I find impressive is that DNA is identifiable at all from thousands of years ago anyway, and our own species is considerably older than that tiny 6000 years. "Tiny" - a huge time in human history but tiny in the entire spectrum of life on Earth.

@ArishMell The male line was reset with Noah. Noah and his three sons. All the males were descended from Noah. The female line Noah's wife and his three daughters in law common female ancestor was Eve.

@hippyjoe1955 Thank for summarising the Genesis myth.

It makes the ancient Hebrew's concepts not an allegorical celebration of life, but something bleaker and more callous than I had realised.

The trouble is, it returns to everyone being Adam and Eve's descendants. Or had the Noah-fable inventor secretly twigged without actually understanding how or daring suggest the heresy, that humans might have been around in much larger numbers and for much longer than the cultures he knew?

If the former, the Bible imagines God made all life including that first couple from nothing. Then He had the entire human race descend from that one couple and their illegitimate, incestuous loin-fruits; but interrupted things after a few generations by cold-bloodedly drowning all but one small family, keeping the in-breeding going.

Doesn't it?

Charming, however you look at it.

Then you wonder why most people can at least accept believing, or do indeed believe in, a God devised by one small, Late Bronze Age society; but reject as myths the more absurd events which that society had imagined and blamed on its God.

@ArishMell A logical explanation of what we see in the genetic code of humans. Strange coincidence eh?

@hippyjoe1955 No. No co-incidence at all.

If we descended from just one couple in-breeding would have destroyed our species quite rapidly.

You can legitimately use science and archaeology to trace the old Biblical cultures and try to establish some of the more likely historical events they mention. For example, the landmark fire in Exodus might have been an eruption from a dormant or now-extinct volcano that does exist in roughly the right area.

You cannot twist science to suit an ancient and frankly absurd myth you cannot bear to see questioned or disbelieved.

Just because the myth is in the Bible does not give it credence. After all, finding scraps of ancient wood on a Middle Eastern mountain no more proves the Noah story than finding a few Mediaeval arrow-heads in Sherwood Forest could prove the Robin Hood myth.

@ArishMell The genetic anomaly was discovered by an atheist. After that it was trying to discover a plausible explanation. Do you have a better one?

@hippyjoe1955 No, I don't, but I am neither a geneticist or palaeontologist, nor am I trying to misuse learning to prop up antique fables that have no credible meaning or purpose other than pure religious allegory. Neither do you have a proper explanation.

The OP says "True Science...". A true scientist admits when not knowing something, and can only offer hypotheses based on what is observed, on tested knowledge, and on thinking properly.

Whether religious or not he or she would not say, "Oh it proves...[insert ancient myth of choice but lacking any logic at all]".