{"id":33898,"date":"2021-04-03T13:28:10","date_gmt":"2021-04-03T18:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/?p=33898"},"modified":"2021-04-03T13:28:10","modified_gmt":"2021-04-03T18:28:10","slug":"mitochondrial-dna-differences-indicate-a-6000-year-old-human-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/mitochondrial-dna-differences-indicate-a-6000-year-old-human-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Mitochondrial DNA Differences Indicate a 6,000 Year Old Human Race"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t

Source:<\/strong> Nathaniel T. Jeanson, “On the Origin of Human Mitochondrial DNA Differences, New Generation Time Data Both Suggest a Unified Young-Earth Creation Model and Challenge the Evolutionary Out-of-Africa Model<\/a>,”\u00a0Answers Research Journal<\/em>, September 2016.<\/p>\n

“Previously, I predicted that a constant rate of mutation over 6000 years would result in 20 to 79 mitochondrial genome-wide nucleotide differences. This prediction captured the average non-African mtDNA difference (38-40 nucleotides) quite well. However, after the paper was published, I was made aware that the upper end of this prediction (79 nucleotides) also barely captured the average African DNA difference (~77 nucleotides; average from Ingman et al. 2000). To reach this difference of 79 nucleotides, a constant rate of mutation and a generation time of 15 years had to be assumed. Since a 15 year generation time is at odds with typical practices today in the West …”<\/p>\n

“In African nations surveyed around 1976, nearly a third (32.8%) of women were married by ages 15-19 … This percentage was nearly three times higher than the percentage among women from non-African nations. … Since mtDNA in humans is thought to be inherited primarily through the maternal lineage, this finding cast my previous mtDNA calculations in a new light.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The author goes on to explain that if the evolutionary model is accepted, then there is a severe shortage of mtDNA differences to reach the timeline evolution requires.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: Nathaniel T. Jeanson, “On the Origin of Human Mitochondrial DNA Differences, New Generation Time Data Both Suggest a Unified Young-Earth Creation Model and Challenge the Evolutionary Out-of-Africa Model,”\u00a0Answers Research Journal, September 2016. “Previously, I predicted that a constant rate of mutation over 6000 years would result in 20 to 79 mitochondrial genome-wide nucleotide differences.…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[42],"tags":[302,80],"class_list":["post-33898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-issues","tag-creation","tag-evolution"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":53447,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/evidence-that-90-of-earths-species-developed-at-the-same-time\/","url_meta":{"origin":33898,"position":0},"title":"Evidence that 90% of Earth’s Species Developed at the Same Time","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"June 12, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"by Jeffrey W. 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