Did Adam Live 60,000 Years Ago? (Earth, bible, sex, Christianity)

[Cordoba]

Greetings to All:

The National Geographic, together with IBM, have started a new 5 year research project, called the Genographic Project, to try to answer this question and to explain the genetic journeys that bond our personal lineage over tens of thousands of years.

https://www5.nationalgeographic.com/genographic/

Can microscopic clues in our own DNA link every man on earth back to one common ancestor?

Was there actually an Adam, an ancient man that all men today are descended from?

This landmark project poised at the crossroads of science and humanity itself offers a chance to find a genetic Adam, a single ancestor whose DNA survives in every man on earth.

Three of the world’s most dominant religions – Christianity, Islam and Judaism – all believe one man fathered us all.

Search for Adam follows National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Spencer Wells, a leading population geneticist, as he sets out to show us there was an Adam. Wells uses the latest DNA testing technology to take viewers on an extraordinary journey across the globe as he traces humanity’s family tree.

“The Y-chromosome links the men of today to the men who lived in the past,” said Wells. “This tiny piece of DNA allows us to travel back in time through humanity’s history, and use DNA to link billions of men alive back to one ancestor. The Y-chromosome can trace the origins of men from all over the world.”

As we follow Wells from Central Asia to South Africa to Siberia, he traces the Y-chromosome backwards through the generations of the branches of man’s family tree. The tree begins to coalesce into a single trunk, pointing to a single Adam who Wells believes lived around 60,000 years ago, in Africa.

“Effectively, we are all members of an extended family,” added Wells. “We’re all really cousins.”

http://www.islamicity.com/m/news_fra...erenceID=21005

Will modern scientific research prove that Adam actually existed?

What do you think?

[EnhancedSpirit]

I want to be part of that study, but it costs $99. They call it a donation. But this is the first time I have ever heard of test subjects paying to be part of an experiment. Or is this just a ploy for someone to get everyones' DNA on record?

Still, I would love to have my DNA traced. That would be like a past life reading almost.

[greatcalgarian]

Originally Posted by EnhancedSpirit

I want to be part of that study, but it costs $99. They call it a donation. But this is the first time I have ever heard of test subjects paying to be part of an experiment. Or is this just a ploy for someone to get everyones' DNA on record?

Still, I would love to have my DNA traced. That would be like a past life reading almost.

http://www.paidsurveysonline.com/?hop=holtebook2
Collect $75 from the above, then you only have to pay $24

[EnhancedSpirit]

Originally Posted by greatcalgarian

http://www.paidsurveysonline.com/?hop=holtebook2
Collect $75 from the above, then you only have to pay $24

I wonder what the results of the test would be if I sent in a swab of saliva from my dogs mouth instead of mine. Since they are only looking at the sex genes, would they detect that it was a dog and not a person?

[Pah]

Originally Posted by greatcalgarian

http://www.paidsurveysonline.com/?hop=holtebook2
Collect $75 from the above, then you only have to pay $24

I'm not so sure that would work if Nat Geo. hasn't subscribed to the service. Could be wrong.

The fee covers the testing and the results you get back

[Scuba Pete]

$99 sounds too convenient to just be covering expenses. It would be my guess that someone is making a ton of money off of this.

[Scuba Pete]

BTW, 60,000 years sounds a bit young for Homo Sapiens. Of course, my recollection of those times is a bit fuzzy.

[john313]

There was probably an Adam 60,000 years ago, probably not the Adam of the bible though.

[Cordoba]

Originally Posted by NetDoc

BTW, 60,000 years sounds a bit young for Homo Sapiens.

That would actually be one of the important implications of this research, that the human race starts from Adam, not from earlier sub-human species!

[Scuba Pete]

Not sure that would be correct Cordoba.

The presense of the "first" homo-sapien does not preclude that person coming from a lower creature.

However, finding the point of sentience would be the real trick. When did man become aware of himself and his surroundings?