keep in mind, males inherit their Y chromosomes from their fathers only. (mothers cannot contribute as women do not have Y chromosomes.)
so all three of noah's sons should've had the exact same chromosomes as their father and brothers. and all of THEIR children should've had identical chromosomes, as well as their grandchildren, etc.
in reality though, there are many types of Y chromosomes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Y-chromosome_DNA_haplogroups). why is this if all men are descended of noah??
2007-05-14 12:16:26 · 13 answers · asked by tobykeogh 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Ahh, a fine point, I'm a bit jealous that I didn't come up with this particular question myself when I was going through different problems with creationism (I focused more on astronomy). Anyway, I would assume that the problem would be disregarded in a similar way that Adam and Eve were able to have grandchildren, as God is all powerful, he'd be able to pull people fully formed into existance when necisary...
Or they could relate this to God directly intervening and changing people, with the tower of babel or however that particular Christian believes races popped out of nowhere...
2007-05-14 12:33:40 · answer #1 · answered by yelxeH 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋
God built all races and types of humans into Adam. Some types of humans were no doubt lost in the flood. But Noah still contained the dna to continue a wide array of human life.
As the centuries pass humans have grouped into more alike groups and continue to multiply. As we are far away from initial creation we do not have the same type of genetic make-up anymore. It's almost like how dogs are made pure-bred. When you stop mixing things up you just get more of the same thing.
2007-05-19 16:11:37 · answer #2 · answered by Esperenza 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The 'bible' is a BS document whose sole purpose was the control of the slaves of the Roman Empire, which it did with great success for 1500 years.
The DNA molecule is an unstable, self replacating molecule that infrequently produces a varitant of itself that causes changes in the end result entity, known in todays lexicon as "evolution".
2007-05-21 12:26:47 · answer #3 · answered by charles s 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Noah and his sons each had wives. So there were at least 4 different women to restart the population of the Earth, with.
Coherent, enough, Scott?
2007-05-14 12:35:05 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
All men are not descendants of Noah. At the time of the flood, God was dealing with a certain nation, who were wicked and rebellious. The flood wasn't a worldwide effect. In the same way how God dealt with Sodom and Gomorrah and destroy those two city with brimstone and fire, it did not have a world wide effect.
2007-05-14 12:23:42 · answer #5 · answered by charmaine f 5 · 2⤊ 4⤋
Ah, but you forget, Noah had 2 of each animal on his boat, so some of us could in fact be descendants of ostriches!
2007-05-14 12:20:32 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 4⤋
I'd run that one past a rabbi. Sounds complicated.
2007-05-14 12:25:25 · answer #7 · answered by Galahad 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No one said that Noah's wife was....well you get the idea...
2007-05-14 12:21:02 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
because when mutations happen and "mutants" are bred with "normal" humans they become recessive genes and when this happen over a large scale, there is only room for more mutations.
2007-05-14 12:21:37 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 5⤋
Because that was millions of years ago. Diet and climate will eventually change everything about you.
2007-05-14 12:19:49 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 6⤋