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From: Bob Badour on 24 Aug 2008 15:17
astri wrote:

> On Sun, 24 Aug 2008, Bob Badour wrote:
>
>> astri wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, 24 Aug 2008, Bob Badour wrote:
>>>
>>>> Andrew Floyd wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Useless fact: The Mormons believe we are all related if you look
>>>>> back far enough in time, that is.
>>>>
>>>> Um, so do the Catholics and the Protestants and the Jews and anyone
>>>> who believes the book of Genesis.
>>>
>>> and so do those who "believe in" mitochondrial eve.
>>
>> Why the scare quotes?
>
> used the same grammatical construction, but don't really think that
> this kind of belief (aka faith) is really an issue regarding acceptance
> of scientific findings. but maybe it is.

That would depend entirely on how one views the concept. Some people may
believe a mitochondrial Eve lived 250,000 years ago. Some people may
believe a mitochondrial Eve lived at some other time.

Some people may have no opinion on when a mitochondrial Eve might have
lived but might believe natural selection is how humans came to be
making a mitochondrial Eve statistically very probable.

Others may have no belief at all and have the opinion that natural
selection is the simplest explanation for the diversity of life on our
planet--especially given our knowledge about DNA as the mechanism for
natural selection.
From: Terry Jones on 24 Aug 2008 16:37
On Sun, 24 Aug 2008 08:07:57 -1000, astri <astri(a)invalid.invalid>
wrote:

>mitochondrial eve

Over here mitochondrial eve and mitochondrial day are not that big a
thing - On the upside, it means that they're not highly commercialised
like so many of the others.

--

Terry
From: Eva on 24 Aug 2008 22:41

"Dolphinius" <dolphinius(a)fsmail.net> wrote in message
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> On 24 Aug, 14:49, Bob Badour <bbad...(a)pei.sympatico.ca> wrote:
>> Andrew Floyd wrote:
>>
>> > Useless fact: The Mormons believe we are all related if you look back
>> > far enough in time, that is.
>>
>> Um, so do the Catholics and the Protestants and the Jews and anyone who
>> believes the book of Genesis.
>
> However, not all Christians believe that the book of Genesis is meant
> to be interpreted literally.
>
> I don't understand why, when Jesus taught in parables a lot of the
> time, so many Christians believe that everything in the bible is meant
> to be taken literally.
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Even literal-minded me knows better than that!

Eva


From: Ry Bloody Nosseros on 25 Aug 2008 03:12
Message mah3b4tc31o6p20j740pvqd8o0tqj1a9t2(a)4ax.com from Terry Jones
<terryjones(a)beeb.net> on Sun, 24 Aug 2008 21:37:29 +0100 said:

> On Sun, 24 Aug 2008 08:07:57 -1000, astri <astri(a)invalid.invalid> wrote:
>
>>mitochondrial eve
>
> Over here mitochondrial eve and mitochondrial day are not that big a
> thing - On the upside, it means that they're not highly commercialised
> like so many of the others.


One of the advantages of modern technology, and my brand-new Linux box,
is that I can take advantage of twin-monitor technology to splork coffee
on both screens when some clever blighter like you comes up with
something like the above!

Precis: tee flipping hee!

Ry "Freshly Mint-ed" Nosseros


--
The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard.
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