re: Study: All Humanity Comes From One Couple.................... You don't say

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Our communal mom and dad got together after a “catastrophic event” almost wiped out the human race

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I have heard this before - but the claim was that there were less than 50K humans who survived the catastrophe - sounds more logical than a catastrophe that wiped out the entire race of humanoids except for one pair in the same place.

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concluded that 90% of all animal species alive today come from parents that all began giving birth at roughly the same time, less than 250 thousand years ago

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Just how rough is 'roughly' especially when discussing spans of time over 250,000 years.

I could safely say that ever animal alive today came from parents who were giving birth within 70 years of 1948. (Maybe some big turtle or sea creature had sires born before 1878.) fyi - my dad was born in 1894. I am 80.

I really find it hard to believe that one single pair of people could give rise to 8 billion descendants with no contribution from any other source and populate the entire globe.

Something is wrong with this 'study.'

NOW - I am not throwing dispersions on the Genesis of the Bible. I believe that narrative is a marvelous description of how the earth and life came to be from nothingness in a form that people completely ignorant of modern scientific knowledge could relate to.

My own personal interpretation of Adam and Eve from Genesis is describing the moment that God induced a conscience into the mentality of humans. This is the primary thing that separates us from the rest of the animal kingdom = the "knowledge of good and evil."

Trying to submit the stories in the Bible to scientific examination is a fool's errand.