What can one believe_______________

[LifeHiscost]

_______________in an age of deceit when only those willingly controlled by the Creator can be assured by His promises that only the elect will be delivered from it's baleful effects?

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A long time ago, I seem to remember some study that was able to trace some common (to every person) DNA to one Black woman

That's probably not as true as the fact the banana has 92% percent of the same DNA as humans. I think the human race has proven that over and over, much to our detriment.

God cares!

[phkrause]

That's probably not as true as the fact the banana has 92% percent of the same DNA as humans. I think the human race has proven that over and over, much to our detriment.

Sounds better than being lead to believe that you can be traced back to an ape!!!

[Bravus]

What can one believe if one actively avoids knowledge and relies on half-heard, half-remembered snippets from those implacably opposed to knowledge?

Read and learn:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitochondrial_Eve

The claim about 50% (*not* 92%) DNA shared with bananas was made humorously in this 2002 Australian radio interview: http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/scienceshow/almost-like-a-whale/3504048#transcript

It has taken on a life of its own since, but it's worth noting that it makes a lot more sense to compare coding rather than non-coding ('junk') DNA, and the differences are much greater in the coding DNA (as we'd expect).

Different assumptions are fine, but if beliefs are to be founded in facts at all they ought to be true, researched facts.

[Bravus]

Interesting side note from that talk:

"Well, let me end up by talking for a while about human evolution. Now Darwin of course was very cautious about talking about this, he only has one sentence in The Origin about ourselves, which says that light will be cast on man and his origins." - Steve Jones

Which makes it clear that the frequent canard that Darwin's theory is racist based on the subtitle of the 'Origin' and its reference to 'favoured races' is false: 'races' was used by Darwin to mean 'species'.

[LifeHiscost]

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Different assumptions are fine, but if beliefs are to be founded in facts at all they ought to be true, researched facts.

untrue fact=oxymoron Untrue fact inferred of which this below is of that ilk.

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The genes of organisms that are worlds apart are astonishingly similar. For example, human DNA sequences are around 50% identical to banana sequences. You have to go back in time a long way to find a common ancestor between humans and bananas, but ultimately they have both emerged from the same family tree, the tree of life, and that is the reason they may share similar characteristics. Another example is the chimpanzee whom humans share over 95% identical DNA with. Surprised?

Read more: http://seriousfacts.com/50-of-human-dna-is-the-same-as-a-bananas/#ixzz2dWfc4zfv

Sounded like it to me. Personally I liked the ape more than the banana, but I like this fact better yet:

"And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth."Genesis 1:26 KJV

God cares!

[Bravus]

The 'fact' that humans share 92% of their DNA with bananas was untrue and therefore not a fact. Fair enough.

The fact that we can follow the mitochondrial DNA back to a common human female ancestor in Africa more than 100,000 years ago is of a different order.

[Bravus]

And, sadly, whether or not we like facts has zero bearing on whether they are facts.

[olger]

Originally Posted By: LifeHiscost

That's probably not as true as the fact the banana has 92% percent of the same DNA as humans. I think the human race has proven that over and over, much to our detriment.

Sounds better than being lead to believe that you can be traced back to an ape!!!

Forsooth !!