If we are all descendants of Adam and Eve why is it that if you tested my DNA you wouldn't find any Genes that

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would show that I am related to 100% of the world population as a relative?

This goes against the question "If we evolved then why are there still monkeys".Common sense gives an answer.

So, we are all really brothers and sisters?That is a lot more nasty then to think we are all monkeys.I would rather be a hairless ape then an inbreed.Does this mean I can dispute any will?Since I am a relative I want ever fortune ever left to anyone.

Answer 1

Because we aren't. The Bible works real well until logic and science are applied to it.

Answer 2

Well actually there sort of is a type of DNA that does, it just throws the time line off by about 140,000 years. But it does show a common female ancestor however. That doesn't imply that there was only one around, only that the population was rather small at the time.

Mitochondrial DNA - This comes only from your mother and the only changes to it are through mutations. These mutations occur at a known rate, and converge world wide 150,000 years ago give or take. If Eve (6000 years ago) was the only female, it would be almost identical world wide. It is not. The flood gives a second bottleneck that matches the facts even less well.

Answer 3

the answer in a nutshell is microevolution mixed with the actual shown truth that DNA can mutate. Longer answer: The enzymes that make new DNA for each cellular interior the body from time to time screw up, ensuing in mutations. A mutation is only a replaced DNA sequence. Mutations regularly do no longer some thing. from time to time, notwithstanding, they could substitute the attributes of offspring. (The mutations in effortless words count number evolutionarily at the same time as they take position interior the sperm or egg, because they administration the more youthful ones' entire genetic code.) If the mutation has a unfavorable effect, the mutant offspring would no longer stay lengthy sufficient to reproduce, thereby combating the mutation from being exceeded on to a special era. If the mutation is reliable, notwithstanding, the offspring will stay longer and/or reproduce extra, causing the hot trait to be exceeded on to many toddlers, to ensure that the destiny era have this new mutation. After many generations, the resultant organisms have a great number of mutations making them diverse from the unique moms and dads (Adam and Eve if Genesis is truly precise). by the way, when I communicate about mutations, i'm referring specially to reproductive cells. do not problem that you're going to mutate throughout your life and develop into some different person. Mutations take position in individual cells, yet all the cells on your body have virtually similar genetic sequences. (i'm speaking about some thing like ninety 9.999999% similar.) notwithstanding, at the same time as a cellular has a mutation partly of the DNA conventional as a protooncogene, the rrsult is cancer. there is also the probability that there have been more suitable than 2 unique human beings. (This scenario would not rule out the Genesis version because God would have created others. do not forget that Adam and Eve had no daughters said interior the Bible, so both Eve became to blame of incest, which God would fairly be displeased with, or there have been another those that were no longer protected interior the Bible.) If many human beings existed at the starting up, that ought to enable for further version, yet microevolution would nevertheless reason many transformations from the unique generations. as well to, geographic isolation has led to individualized DNA. (in spite of everything, it really is confusing to get Mongolian DNA if anybody on your household lived in England, case in point.)

Answer 4

Whether we descended from Adam or from an amoeba, in both cases we would still have a common ancestor. If a test could not prove we came from Adam, then that same test could not prove we evolved from a single-celled creature. Either way, like it or not, we're all related. It's interesting to see how some people won't believe we're all genetically related to each other but are more willing to believe that we have a common ancestry with chimps. As we are continuing to map the human genome, there is an ever-widening gap between humans and primates. Of course you are related to the rest of the world population, unless you're not human.

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Are you sure you wouldn't find any genes like that? Has 100% of the world's population been tested and a registry made of DNA variables? It's a pretty large gene pool we're swimming in here, when you count all of the people who have ever lived on the earth, and all those yet to be born.

Also, if you believe in evolution rather than creation, didn't we all evolve from whatever the first creature was to come out of the primordial ooze? Shouldn't we all have a genetic DNA match with everyone else out there, if we all sprung from the same swamp?

No matter how you believe, it all started somewhere, and we should then all be related. I'm pretty sure you and I are 12th cousins twice removed, on my mother's side.

Answer 6

We do all have a common female ancestor according to DNA.

There is no way to trace male DNA because the line is interrupted every time a woman enters it, but, you can direct trace male heritage back and my understanding is that there is a common male ancestor.

There are problems with the DNA "math" theory, calculating time based on DNA since generations are not fixed in time, for example a 95 year old man can father a child with a 13 year old girl or a 13 year old boy can father a child with a woman as old as in her fifties.

There are also problems with people figuring out time based on scripture, moon years and sun years for example. We do not understand when any of these things happened so we make a lot of guesses based on "averages".

Insurance companies occasionally go broke betting on averages.

Answer 7

But it would. If your DNA was tested it would show that you are human. This makes you related to all other humans.

Genocides from prehistory would wipe out whole groups of people that could show how the remaining genes were tied together. This very likely happened.

I do wish people would actually read and understand the book of genesis. It is so very clearly not talking about Adam and Eve as two individual people, but as allegorical representations of the Y and X chromosomes! It does not mean that we were all born from the union of two people - it is stating that life is made by the splitting and recombining of DNA. Adam's rib was not an actual rib, it was his X chromosome.

For the record, I have no personal interest in the validity of the bible.

Answer 8

Because it actually doesn't state anywhere in the bible that we are all descendants of Adam and Eve. It simply states they were the first man and woman. How other genetic strains entered the human evolution is a matter for theory and speculation, although the 'great flood' story, which incidentaly dates back into Sumerian and Assyrian mythology, mentions superhuman beings (refering to them as the sons of God) having relations with the 'daughters of men'. How one interprets this is up to them, but it does hint at some interesting ideas, yes?

Answer 9

Actually, we're all remarkably similar, genetically.

Not as similar as some animals, but still closer than you probably think.

And no matter what explanation we use to explain our origins, we would still come from a very small group of people- Adam and Eve, a particular group of Hominids, a small batch of test animals released from the UFO, whatever.

Answer 10

Serial dilution of gene pool over many generations has occurred.

Humanity has been traced to a specific area in the area around Ethiopia - DNA tests have shown this to be a fact. The DNA chain is long, so it only needs one fragment to concur for any of us to be related however distantly.

Answer 11

I head of the EVE study...they have found evidence that all people on the planet are related to a few tribes from africa...So Adam and Eve are proably more then two people.