Re: MHC question

Glenn Morton (GRMorton@gnn.com)
Wed, 28 Aug 1996 21:08:59

Stephen Jones wrote:

>Why would this rule out "a recent origin of Adam"? If God took Adam
>from a pool of anatomically modern hominids between (say) 10,000 -
>50,000 years ago, would this not be consistent with him having the
>genetic history of those hominids and their primate ancestors?

Because at the rate mutations occur, there has not been time to generate such
diversity by mutation.

By the way, I will ask this again. Is there any fact which would disprove the
2-Adam theory? If you don't answer I would presume that nothing could
disprove it.

glenn
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