(On a thread about the discovery through genetics that humans almost went extinct at one point.)
Well duh they almost went extinct when the flood came and killed everyone except noah's family
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Except this occured 70,000, the survivors were in Africa, and it is presumed that it had to do with a drought not a flood. Nice try, though.
Humans nearly went extinct 70,000 years ago when the breeding population dropped to only 2000.
What does this have to do with a myth about a worldwide flood 6000 years ago where supposedly less than a dozen people survived?
What?
This is a sarcastic reply to an actual fundie one post over this guy.
Seriously, why submit something as real when it has a freakin' ':p' after it? C'mon, people.
Well, as soon as I saw the Toba Eruption thing on the news, I knew this was coming...
This may be a sarcastic comment, but your can bet people like Gish or Hamm are gonna sell it to the Fundies using the "Noah" explanation...
Well I think your talking about the Mounr Toba eruption circa 72,000 years ago; a bit before Noah's time and the genetic mix shows a few 1000 to 10's of thousands survived, a few more than Noah's family.
If the flood had actually happened, the human race, and every other animal, WOULD be extinct, because of this little problem called "functional extinction." And if they were having babies hyper-fast, they'd have likely been ripped apart. >.>
So did they bone their sisters to repopulate the entire earth?
This question has already been answered by fundies. They have no problem with incest if it is necessary (because God didn't create more than one family, or God wiped out everything but one family).
@Vampirehummingbird: I've heard of the bottlenecking too, but I always assumed it was linked to the eruption of Gunung Toba in Sumatera around that time.image
In any case it would take an incredible feat of nature and humanity to turn 10 peoplein 6.6 billion in 4700 years.
This isn't even a Poe. It's plain old-fashioned sarcasm.
What next, posting lines from my square earth webpage?
Confused?
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