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Percy
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11-23-2015 4:06 PM


Today's New York Times reports that "in a study published Monday in Nature, David Reich, a geneticist at Harvard Medical School, and his colleagues analyzed the genomes of 230 people who lived between 8,500 and 2,300 years ago." (Agriculture Linked to DNA Changes in Ancient Europe)
Apparently the researchers had evidence that some of people whose genomes they studied lived before creation.
I wanted to propose a new topic to discuss the evidence that the genomes are older than creation, but the study is behind a paywall.
--Percy

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Omnivorous
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Message 2 of 13 (773033)
11-23-2015 4:37 PM
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11-23-2015 4:06 PM


Didn't Marvel Comics cover all that in the 60s?
The Inhumans
quote:
[A] race that was evolutionarily advanced when human beings were still in the Stone Age.
There you go. Though I prefer the Middle Ages myth of Lilith, who wouldn't return to Adam in the Garden after she slept with then-archangel Samael outside the Garden.
Well, duh.
Or maybe the pre-Creation folk were giants in the earth?
Great topic! Surely you can hack a paywall?
On the other hand, wait: Professor Girlfriend is visiting for Thanksgiving. Maybe I can use her university library privileges to access it.

"If you can keep your head while those around you are losing theirs, you can collect a lot of heads."
Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto.
-Terence

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Genomicus
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Message 3 of 13 (773034)
11-23-2015 4:38 PM
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11-23-2015 4:06 PM


Here you go:
nature16152.pdf | DocDroid
That link will take you directly to the full PDF version of the paper, which you can then download to your computer.

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Message 4 of 13 (773040)
11-23-2015 6:04 PM
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11-23-2015 4:38 PM


Thanks for the link.
The paper does not seem to spend much time on the evidence for dating. Might require some digging into the articles references to get this discussion started.

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Percy
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Message 5 of 13 (773041)
11-23-2015 6:07 PM
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11-23-2015 4:38 PM


Thanks.
After I read the paper if it still seems to make sense to start a discussion thread then I'll propose one over at Proposed New Topics.
--Percy

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Message 6 of 13 (773042)
11-23-2015 6:19 PM
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11-23-2015 6:07 PM


Can I play too?
I don't have dates as early as 8,500 years, but I do have two radiocarbon dates on human bone dating back 7,550 and 7,650 years.
We don't have the DNA evidence in yet, but the samples are currently at a good DNA laboratory being analyzed.

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If I am entitled to something, someone else is obliged to pay--Jerry Pournelle
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"Multiculturalism" demands that the US be tolerant of everything except its own past, culture, traditions, and identity.

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Message 7 of 13 (773044)
11-23-2015 9:29 PM


I wanna play, too, but from the other end.
I'm going to grab my bible and count the begats to see if Bishop Ussher missed anything.
Anyone know how long a begat is?

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11-24-2015 10:04 AM
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AZPaul3 writes:
Anyone know how long a begat is?
Forty-two, I think.

-Blue Jay, Ph.D.*
*Yeah, it's real
Darwin loves you.

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Omnivorous
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Message 9 of 13 (773078)
11-24-2015 11:19 AM
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11-24-2015 10:04 AM


Blue Jay writes:
AZPaul3 writes:
Anyone know how long a begat is?
Forty-two, I think.
It depends if you're measuring the actual begats or the gaps between generational begats.
I have it on good authority that the average begat is about five minutes.

"If you can keep your head while those around you are losing theirs, you can collect a lot of heads."
Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto.
-Terence

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NoNukes
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Message 10 of 13 (773091)
11-24-2015 1:55 PM
Reply to: Message 7 by AZPaul3
11-23-2015 9:29 PM


Anyone know how long a begat is?
Isn't that a rather personal question? I know I'm not interested in the details of anyone else's begat times, positions, etc. Well, unless they really want to post them, with some photos?

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison. Thoreau: Civil Disobedience (1846)
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people. Martin Luther King
If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions? Scott Adams

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Message 11 of 13 (773092)
11-24-2015 1:57 PM
Reply to: Message 6 by Coyote
11-23-2015 6:19 PM


Got any pointers to where one might find similar stuff? I think Percy's topic could be downright interesting if we can find some info to discuss.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison. Thoreau: Civil Disobedience (1846)
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people. Martin Luther King
If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions? Scott Adams

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Message 12 of 13 (773096)
11-24-2015 3:01 PM
Reply to: Message 11 by NoNukes
11-24-2015 1:57 PM


In the new world there are not yet a lot of DNA samples on ancient human remains. The few we have are quite interesting.
Here are a couple of links to get started:
Oldest Burial Yields DNA Evidence of First Americans
Beringian Standstill and Spread of Native American Founders | PLOS ONE

Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge.
Belief gets in the way of learning--Robert A. Heinlein
In the name of diversity, college student demands to be kept in ignorance of the culture that made diversity a value--StultisTheFool
It's not what we don't know that hurts, it's what we know that ain't so--Will Rogers
If I am entitled to something, someone else is obliged to pay--Jerry Pournelle
If a religion's teachings are true, then it should have nothing to fear from science...--dwise1
"Multiculturalism" demands that the US be tolerant of everything except its own past, culture, traditions, and identity.

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AZPaul3
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Message 13 of 13 (773120)
11-24-2015 9:54 PM
Reply to: Message 8 by Blue Jay
11-24-2015 10:04 AM


Blue Jay (the spider) writes:
Anyone know how long a begat is?
Forty-two, I think.
I knew that.
Omni writes:
I have it on good authority that the average begat is about five minutes.
Then the Earth is really really young!
NoNukes writes:
I know I'm not interested in the details of anyone else's begat times, positions, etc. Well, unless they really want to post them, with some photos?
Oh, god, not mine. That would be disgusting!
{How disgusting would it be?}
That would be so disgusting they would shut down the internet and throw the routers away!

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