<<"More recent studies have shrunk that number significantly and are
revealing how much less it may be. Making the same assumption as the
previous researchers did, specifically that any divergence in Y-
chromosomes found among men alive today must have arisen through
natural evolutionary processes, American molecular biologist Michael
Hammer examined 2,600 nucleotide base pair segments of the chromosome
in 16 ethnically distinct men. His calculations suggested that the
16 descended from one man living betwecn 51,000 to 411,000 years
ago." (Michael Hammer, "A Recent Common Ancestry for Human Y
chromosomes," Nature, 378 (1995), pp. 376-378)
A British team composed of geneticists Simon Whitfield, John Sulston,
and Peter Goodfellow examined a much larger segment of the human Y
chromosome, a segment composed of 100,000 nucleotide base pairs, in 5
ethnically distinct men. The divergence they observed was so small
as to shrink that date projection to somewhere between 37,000 and
49,000 years ago." (L. Simon Whitfield, John E.Sulston, and Peter
N. (GoodFellow, "Sequence Variation of the Human Y Chromosome,"
Nature 378, 1995, pp 379-380 ). This newest date for man's
progenitor has come within the range of Biblically determined dates
for Adam. If the Genesis genealogies are anywhere from 10 to 80
percent complete, as most conservative scholars suggest, the Adam of
Eden lived between 7,500 and 60,000 years ago." (Ross, 1996, p4).
Now Ross may be wrong, but he is basing his view on scientific
evidence, which Glenn no doubt knows about, but fails to mention.>>
I think this data is important re: Glenn's charges against Hugh. Thanks.
Jim