Particles unique to each individual. They say they are able to identify one man out of a billion using this DNA stuff. They can actually trace man back to his original ancestor thousands of years ago using DNA tracers. What will be the excuse of Christians when science have used this DNA to trace man back to his animal evolutionary ancestor? Will they then claim DNA is a work of Satan?
2007-06-01 05:21:04 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
They've traced DNA back to Eve the mother of all living. This has already been done since the Eve cell will not divide.
Mitochondria DNA is tiny structures (1700) in the human cell identical loop of DNA about 16,000 base pairs long containing 37 genes. Scientists say they've traced Eve back to Africa but the exact age is difficult to tell. The Garden of Eden must have been similar to the African rain forests.
2007-06-01 05:43:37 · answer #1 · answered by Jeancommunicates 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Scientists already can show the degrees of relationships between organisms based on DNA. I'm really surprised that there isn't more fundamentalist opposition to genetics. After all, the Genesis stories are just (according to them) about how God made an ancestor a long time ago. But genetics is about how each one of us is produced through natural processes determined by a chemical code we inherit from our parents. That isn't exactly our being literally knit together in the womb, as the Bible puts it.
Sooner or later Christians have to realize that either you can make peace with all of science and continue to preserve your faith, or you have to oppose all of it. Evolution is not the only area of science that conflicts with a literal reading of the Bible. Rocket science is the most problematic - they keep sending them up and they never hit the dome mentioned in Genesis 1. (Yes, it does literally say 'dome'. The Hebrew word comes from a verb meaning to spread out by hammering. The noun clearly envisaged a solid object).
2007-06-01 12:38:28 · answer #2 · answered by jamesfrankmcgrath 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Isn't it amazing that something as complex as DNA just kind of fell into place? Kind of like throwing 100 decks of cards into the air in a wind tunnel and expecting the cards to land in perfect order. There is no tracing of man to an evolutionary ancestor. Why guess as to how people will respond to a fantasy?
Wonder who designed DNA? Just chance, I guess. Happens all the time. Complex stuff just happens.
2007-06-01 12:29:19 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
God created the universe including DNA. Evolution is Gods method of creating man. You'll have to ask this question in the science section to get a science answer.
2007-06-01 12:23:54 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
Take Biology 101 or watch Forensic Files
2007-06-01 12:24:27 · answer #5 · answered by Traviesa 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
DNA is a technical term for a complex proteo-chemical code, unique to each creature. It contains more information than an encyclopedia.
To have a code, you gotta have a code writer.
2007-06-01 12:26:19 · answer #6 · answered by TEK 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
DNA means deoxyribonucleic acid. Xtians have DNA too that came from the primordial ooze.
2007-06-01 12:32:40 · answer #7 · answered by Irreverend 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
LOL, one more scientific field that has to take the hit for religions. Lets see; biology, paleontology, paleobotany, anthropology, astromony, astrophysics, genetics,
They'll get them all eventually.
2007-06-01 12:31:07 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
If DNA is a work of Satan, does that make Satan our creator?
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2007-06-01 12:24:42 · answer #9 · answered by Weird Darryl 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
The idea that humans have ancestors is just a theory.
2007-06-01 12:33:16 · answer #10 · answered by U-98 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋