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JohnR7

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Today at 07:22 PM troodon said this in Post #276
The common ancestral man and woman didn't live at the same time you realize?

Yes, but the point is that there is no reason to believe that one man and one women could not populate the whole earth.
 
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I found an ask a linguist site that stated this

There is no such thing as the world's oldest language: the label is meaningless. With the exception of a few special cases, all languages are equally old, in that all descend in an unbroken line from the remote beginnings of human speech.

What you seem to be asking about is the first languages to be written down. So far as we know, Sumerian was the first language to be written down, because the Sumerians -- an ancient people in what is now Iraq -- seem to have been the first to invent writing.  Very shortly thereafter, and perhaps even at about the same time, the ancient Egyptians also invented writing, and Egyptian was the second language to be written down.

Larry Trask
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http://www.linguistlist.org/~ask-ling/

The site you linked to is quite biased religiously, so I will be doing further research of course, but wanted to post what I had already found
 
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Um, John, Yes there is. quite a few different studies have shown that it takes a group to keep a population up.

Two people do Not have enough diversity in their DNA to start an entire population.

Today at 04:48 PM JohnR7 said this in Post #281



Yes, but the point is that there is no reason to believe that one man and one women could not populate the whole earth.
 
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Today at 07:59 PM Arikay said this in Post #284

Two people do Not have enough diversity in their DNA to start an entire population.

So, how far can you go with two people? It seems to me as if there are a lot of people alive today who consider themselves to have decended from Abraham.
 
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Oh no, there is a important difference here. God created Adam and Eve, they did not evolve from stone age men. God created domesticated animals along with Adam and Eve, they did not evolve from wild animals.

And is this why you think evolution is bad science? Since when does disagreeing with scriptural interpretation make something bad science?
 
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Unfortunatly I dont know.

Hopefull one of the more scientifically inclined people can come along and tell us how large of a group is needed to give enough DNA diversity to keep the group going.

I do believe its a rather large number (compared to 2). :)

Today at 05:06 PM JohnR7 said this in Post #285



So, how far can you go with two people? It seems to me as if there are a lot of people alive today who consider themselves to have decended from Abraham.
 
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From Lucaspa:

Now, you can retreat and say they were still "flies" but flies are a huge_order with characteristics as widely divergent as rabbits and humans.

From FoC:

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA..

Did someone MISS the fact that THEY ARE STILL FLIES ???

Any irony meters around here still intact?
 
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They are STILL flies. They will always BE flies. They cant help but to be anything BUT flies.
Who cares about differing DNA, THEY ARE STILL FLIES

But one is now a carnivore. That's a very big difference. And how about if one lot is kept in an environment where it can't get off the ground and over time it loses its wings? Then what? "Oh, but they're still INSECTS!!!" Those different types of Drosophila are no more similar than humans and chimps. You might as well say about humans and chimps that, oh well, they're still PRIMATES! I'll bet you'd be happy to use that argument to show why other mammals are really the same "kind"; the big deal is the creationist demand that despite relative genetic similarity and similarity at the level of enzymes, at the level of skeletal structure, at the level of brain configuration, and other levels, humans get to be separate from any sort of other primate. And they don't demand it on the basis of science either.
 
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We know there was a real Abraham, we know there was a real Noah, there is no reason not to believe there was_a real Adam & Eve.

How do we know there was a real Noah, apart from his being mentioned in the Bible? You just have a bunch of different traditions from different early societies. Where is there any external evidence beyond those stories?
 
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We are not talking about the NT, we are talking about the books of Moses right now. Messianic Jews accept the NT.

Then they aren't Jews. Thy're Christians, same as any other Christians. You go to any Jewish board where Jews are talking about Jewish matters and see what happens when one of these so-called Messianic Jews shows up spouting about Jesus. Those people are Christians.
 
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Also we could be talking about prehistoric people. Still, you have 6 billion people and science says they can all be traced back to one Mitochondrial Eve.

Are you contesting this? Are you saying science is wrong?

The science isn't wrong, your understanding of it is wrong. The mitochondrial Eve is simply supposed to be the most recent common human ancestor in the matrilineal line. She's thought by the people who did the mtDNA research to be (a) part of a population and (b) not the earliest human female.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/alabaster/A703199
 
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Today at 08:54 PM Cantuar said this in Post #291



Then they aren't Jews. Thy're Christians, same as any other Christians. You go to any Jewish board where Jews are talking about Jewish matters and see what happens when one of these so-called Messianic Jews shows up spouting about Jesus. Those people are Christians.
That is incorrect.
One is born a Jew.
There are Jews that accept their Christ quite frequently.

''He came unto His own (JEWS) and His own recieved Him not."

What happens on websites means nothing.

You go tell a Jew that he wasnt born jewish and see what happens.
 
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Today at 08:54 PM Cantuar said this in Post #291
Then they aren't Jews.&nbsp;

They are as Jewish as any other Jew. Actually, from a Bible perspective, only about 1% of the people who call themself Jewish are really qualified to call themselves that.

You go to any Jewish board where Jews are talking about Jewish matters and see what happens when one of these so-called Messianic Jews shows up spouting about Jesus.

Actually the messianic Jews are the real Jewish people. So when they show up, of course all of those pretenders are going to get really upset. They do not want to be exposed as a fake.
 
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Today at 11:09 PM JohnR7 said this in Post #294



They are as Jewish as any other Jew. Actually, from a Bible perspective, only about 1% of the people who call themself Jewish are really qualified to call themselves that.



Actually the messianic Jews are the real Jewish people. So when they show up, of course all of those pretenders are going to get really upset. They do not want to be exposed as a fake.
It would have been so cool to be jewish and then accept Christ .
Just what God wanted to begin with.
 
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If they're Christians, they're not Jews. They are two completely different religions. I'm not just talking about websites. My father's family is Jewish, and as far as they and their friends were concerned, if someone converted to Christianity, that person was no longer Jewish. You cannot be two religions at once.
 
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Today at 11:18 PM Cantuar said this in Post #296

If they're Christians, they're not Jews. They are two completely different religions. I'm not just talking about websites. My father's family is Jewish, and as far as they and their friends were concerned, if someone converted to Christianity, that person was no longer Jewish. You cannot be two religions at once.


I dont know exactly which planet you from, but here on earth Jews are born jews.

Being Jewish is not necessarily religious at all.
There are a great many jewish atheists.
 
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Jewish is considered an ethnicity as well as a religion...so one can in fact be Jewish (ethnically) and Christian (religious beliefs)

Oh, sure it's an ethnicity; you're Jewish of your mother is, regardless of your own religion (and your own race, if your mother was a convert). And as far as Hitler was concerned, of course, Messianic Jews were Jews, as were people who were Jewish through their fathers rather than through their mothers (down to the third or fourth generation or something). But a messianic Jew is Christian just the same as any other Christian. They may be ethnic Jews, but that's the only way they're Jewish. The problem with the messianic Jews I've run across is that they put their Christian message across as if it were a Jewish message, simply because they're ethnically Jewish people giving that message. The message that Jesus is the Jewish messiah is not a Jewish message, and it's dishonest for the people preaching that message to pass it off as Jewish on the basis that it's being preached by ethnic Jews. Once someone has converted to Chrsitianity, that person is Christian.
 
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