Humanity came from around 2000 persons?

[achilles12604]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080424/ap_on_sc/close_call

I found this VERY interesting because up until recently, I had assumed that pure evolution was plausible. That many thousands of humans had evolved and expanded over the course of a the last million or so years allowing our population to be so huge today.

But this article suggests two things I find interesting.

1) We were down to a few thousand people just 70,000 years ago. This of course severely limits the numbers of people which could have evolved over the course of a couple million years.

2) There is reason to believe that the entire human race may have come from a "mitocrongrial Eve".



What does the forum think? Is this trouble for traditional evolution? Will the theory need to be re-worked? And last, is this the beginning of scientific evidence supporting a literal reading of Genesis?

[Clownboat]

Is anyone or any group of people other than scientists forced to believe in or to subscribe to the scientific model?

No. But, the fact that the scientific model has come about through the scientific method, which has proven to be extremely effective at explaining phenomena, makes it far more reasonable to sbuscribe to it than to superstitious woo.

If you think that your scientific woo is superior to superstitious woo then enjoy wallowing in your scientific woo.

I don't know what this woo is that you are referring to or how you can possibly wallow in it regardless of its type but what I do know is that science can demonstrate that it is correct which is something neither superstition nor religion can do.

Boots introduced the concept of "superstitious woo" so since Darwinism is not science I classified it as superstitious scientific woo.

Once again, an attempt to make the playing field level is put forth. Sorry Ned, they are not in the same ball park.

You see, one side has this thing called evidence while the other side has a mythical book. Oooooooooooooooohhhhhhh, it is Halloween soon I suppose, so at least you are in season.