I wish I could grasp how they aren't related, lol. I'm not good with this stuff.Yes to question one.
no to question two.
they aren’t really related.c
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I wish I could grasp how they aren't related, lol. I'm not good with this stuff.Yes to question one.
no to question two.
they aren’t really related.c
Every human person has a common male ancestor in Y-Chromosomal Adam and his ancestral lineage. So not sure how it's possible to claim that a Biblical Adam did not exist or that Christ would not have been related to him through Mary.Yes to question one.
no to question two.
they aren’t really related.c
You have a fundamental misunderstanding of the gnome research and the meaning of "Y-Chomoamal Adam". (From Wikipedia):Every human person has a common male ancestor in Y-Chromosomal Adam and his ancestral lineage. So not sure how it's possible to claim that a Biblical Adam did not exist or that Christ would not have been related to him through Mary.
Also you can't follow a Y-Chromosomal line if a generation produced only girls (a common enough occurrence) or the sons failed to reproduce at all (also common enough). So you couldn't actually prove any of the things you're claiming using Y-Chomomal research, since we don't know how many Y-Choromone lines we've lost to antiquity.As with "Mitochondrial Eve", the title of "Y-chromosomal Adam" is not permanently fixed to a single individual, but can advance over the course of human history as paternal lineages become extinct.
Estimates of the time when Y-MRCA lived have also shifted as modern knowledge of human ancestry changes. For example, in 2013, the discovery of a previously unknown Y-chromosomal haplogroup was announced,[1] which resulted in a slight adjustment of the estimated age of the human Y-MRCA.[2]
By definition, it is not necessary that the Y-MRCA and the mt-MRCA should have lived at the same time.[3] While estimates as of 2014 suggested the possibility that the two individuals may well have been roughly contemporaneous,[4] the discovery of the archaic Y-haplogroup has pushed back the estimated age of the Y-MRCA beyond the most likely age of the mt-MRCA. As of 2015, estimates of the age of the Y-MRCA range around 200,000 to 300,000 years ago, roughly consistent with the emergence of anatomically modern humans.[5]
Y-chromosomal data taken from a Neanderthal from El Sidrón, Spain, produced a Y-T-MRCA (time to Y-MRCA) of 588,000 years ago for Neanderthal and Homo sapiens patrilineages, dubbed ante Adam, and 275,000 years ago for Y-MRCA.[6]
Although the informal name "Y-chromosomal Adam" is a reference to the biblical Adam, this should not be misconstrued as implying that the bearer of the chromosome was the only human male alive during his time.[7] His other male contemporaries may also have descendants alive today, but not, by definition, through solely patrilineal descent; in other words, none of them have an unbroken male line of descendants (son's son's son's … son) connecting them to currently living people.
It is true that Pius XII’s rejection of “polygenism” (the belief that we descended from multiple sets of first parents) is not infallible. Nevertheless, it is a teaching that carries with it a high degree of magisterial authority.It is in no way apparent how such an opinion can be reconciled with that which the sources of revealed truth and the documents of the teaching authority of the Church propose with regard to original sin, which proceeds from a sin actually committed by an individual Adam and which, through generation, is passed on to all and is in everyone as his own (sec. 37).
You have a fundamental misunderstanding of the gnome research and the meaning of "Y-Chomoamal Adam". (From Wikipedia):
As with "Mitochondrial Eve", the title of "Y-chromosomal Adam" is not permanently fixed to a single individual, but can advance over the course of human history as paternal lineages become extinct.
Estimates of the time when Y-MRCA lived have also shifted as modern knowledge of human ancestry changes. For example, in 2013, the discovery of a previously unknown Y-chromosomal haplogroup was announced,[1] which resulted in a slight adjustment of the estimated age of the human Y-MRCA.[2]
By definition, it is not necessary that the Y-MRCA and the mt-MRCA should have lived at the same time.[3] While estimates as of 2014 suggested the possibility that the two individuals may well have been roughly contemporaneous,[4] the discovery of the archaic Y-haplogroup has pushed back the estimated age of the Y-MRCA beyond the most likely age of the mt-MRCA. As of 2015, estimates of the age of the Y-MRCA range around 200,000 to 300,000 years ago, roughly consistent with the emergence of anatomically modern humans.[5]
Y-chromosomal data taken from a Neanderthal from El Sidrón, Spain, produced a Y-T-MRCA (time to Y-MRCA) of 588,000 years ago for Neanderthal and Homo sapiens patrilineages, dubbed ante Adam, and 275,000 years ago for Y-MRCA.[6]
Also you can't follow a Y-Chromosomal line if a generation produced only girls (a common enough occurrence) or the sons failed to reproduce at all (also common enough). So you couldn't actually prove any of the things you're claiming using Y-Chomomal research, since we don't know how many Y-Choromone lines we've lost to antiquity.
Not sure what you think this proves. Nothing in Catholic teaching says that Adam was the only living human male alive during his time, nor does Scripture teach that. The question one should indeed ask is where did Cain's wife come from? Some hard core fundamentalists try to make the claim they had to be Cain's sisters but I challenge you to find anything in official Catholic teaching about that. What Catholic teaching does tell us is that we are all descendants from Adam and Eve. Not that they were the only people around. So yes, there could have been other people and yes, they could have descendants as well, but none of them are a common parent to all living people like Y-chromosomal Adam is.Although the informal name "Y-chromosomal Adam" is a reference to the biblical Adam, this should not be misconstrued as implying that the bearer of the chromosome was the only human male alive during his time.[7] His other male contemporaries may also have descendants alive today, but not, by definition, through solely patrilineal descent; in other words, none of them have an unbroken male line of descendants (son's son's son's … son) connecting them to currently living people.
I'm kinda lost here.I have no misunderstanding and I've done a great deal of research and from more significant sources than wikipedia. But, what wikipedia says is not wrong. What exactly do you think this quote proves? MRCA refers to the MOST RECENT common ancestor. So of course as lines die off that person -- the MOST RECENT is going to change. However, if you have a most recent common male ancestor that is a common ancestor to all living people, then their father would also be a common ancestor, as would his father etc.
If you want to get technical about it from a Biblical perspective, Y-chromosomal Adam isn't Adam at all, it's Noah. He would be the MOST RECENT common male ancestor of all living people, but Adam would be the original common parent. And mitochondial Eve would be Eve. And guess what, Eve and Noah did not live at the same time, just like wiki notes -- it is not necessary that the MOST RECENT male and female common ancestor lived at the same time.
Nothing gets "broken" in tracing back to Y-chromosomal Adam if a man has all daughters or if a man fails to reproduce. All living males have a Y-chromosome that was directly derived from Y-chromosomal Adam. Guess what -- that means that all females have a father who had a Y-chromosome that was directly derived from Y-chromosomal Adam. Which is why wikipedia makes the correct claim that "Y-chromosomal Adam is the patrilineal most recent common ancestor (MRCA) from whom all currently living humans are descended," not from whom all living males are descended.
Not sure what you think this proves. Nothing in Catholic teaching says that Adam was the only living human male alive during his time, nor does Scripture teach that. The question one should indeed ask is where did Cain's wife come from? Some hard core fundamentalists try to make the claim they had to be Cain's sisters but I challenge you to find anything in official Catholic teaching about that. What Catholic teaching does tell us is that we are all descendants from Adam and Eve. Not that they were the only people around. So yes, there could have been other people and yes, they could have descendants as well, but none of them are a common parent to all living people like Y-chromosomal Adam is.
You made the claim that the geneology that connects Jesus to Adam is not real. Since all humans have a common male parent, that is a claim that has no basis. We are all connected to a common male parent in our history as science does tell us. Does Scripture tell us every step along the way from that parent to Christ, or just the relevant ones to Jewish history? Probably the latter. But there's no reason to believe the people in the geneology of Christ are not truly his ancestors, and he is absolutely a descendant of our common parents.I'm kinda lost here.
What, exactly, are we debating ?
My only point is this:
You can't use the human gnome to historically prove the existence of any one particular person. You want to claim that the nearest male relative is Noah. Ok,
but the timelines don't match historically with the Bible. And now if you want to claim the Bible is just not correct because, whatever reason, now you are just making my point which is this:
You can't use science to prove the existence of anything in the books written by Moses.
Now, if you want to ask me to believe, as a matter of faith, that somewhere in the history of humanity God instilled 2 people with His grace and that was the start of religiousness, ok fine. But I don't think you can prove it occurred.
Better men then both of us have tried and failed.
And I think the whole Old Testament works much better as a set of parables then history anyway. Especially since most of it likely never happened.
I did, yes.You made the claim that the geneology that connects Jesus to Adam is not real.
I'm sorry that statement is incorrect. While you can make the argument that everyone currently alive can be traced to a common ancestor, you cannot make the claim that every human who ever lived came from a common ancestor. That's what the Wikipedia article is trying to tell you, and that you seem to what to dispute.Since all humans have a common male parent, that is a claim that has no basis.
WE are. Not everyone who has ever lived.We are all connected to a common male parent in our history as science does tell us.
There is also not reason to believe there is either. That's kind of the point.Does Scripture tell us every step along the way from that parent to Christ, or just the relevant ones to Jewish history? Probably the latter. But there's no reason to believe the people in the geneology of Christ are not truly his ancestors, and he is absolutely a descendant of our common parents.
Hitchen's razor:The Catholic Church recognizes that there are many different forms of literature in the Old Testament. It's not a book, it's a collection of books and just like there are many different sections in a library (history, poetry, parables etc) there are many different kinds of writings in the Old Testament. That is why the Church does not insist on a literal reading of Genesis to mean a young earth creation occured in 6 days.
Even so, the Church has always insisted that all of humanity has a set of common parents, So is the "timing off" in terms of how many generations go back to a common parent? Quite likely, just like the timing doesn't align with 6 days to create the universe. However, if you have followed the science, the dating of our common parentage also has changed quite a bit and certainly isn't set in stone by science either. And less than a century ago, science claimed we didn't have common parents at all. So there will likely always be questions as to how everything fits together. But, it's safe to stick with the basics of truth -- the Church teaches we all have a set of common parents, and Jesus would be a descendant of them just like we all are.
Yes, everyone who has ever lived. Including Jesus.I did, yes.
I'm sorry that statement is incorrect. While you can make the argument that everyone currently alive can be traced to a common ancestor, you cannot make the claim that every human who ever lived came from a common ancestor. That's what the Wikipedia article is trying to tell you, and that you seem to what to dispute.
I'm not going to dispute it with you further.
WE are. Not everyone who has ever lived.
The focus here is on sin. We can look at how people died before Adam and Eve. WE also know the situation with Cain Cain’s words, as recorded in the Bible, were: “Whoever finds me will kill me.” Just who is this "whoever" we read about?The Bible teaches that Adam and Eve’s sin brought death into the world, but we know from modern science that the dinosaurs lived and died for millions of years prior to the arrival of Homo sapiens. How do Christians make sense of this?
The focus her is on sin. I have done a study on the remains of people before Adam and Eve. An example is Chedder man going back 10,000 years. Usually these people were killed as an act of violence,
They wouldn't.Why would "everyone currently alive" have a different common ancestor than "everyone who has ever lived"?![]()
Hi Lady:Why would "everyone currently alive" have a different common ancestor than "everyone who has ever lived"?![]()
Many many books could be written about this. So I will try to keep it brief.If we believe in a literal Adam and Eve, what are we to make of Neanderthals or Homo Erectus?
Eve was the first women. In chapter one you have male and female. This actually began somewhere around 250,000 years ago. Genesis 2:23 The man said, “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’ for she was taken out of man.” We see this in the name. You cannot have a female without a male and you can not have a woman without a man.Top line is all the women (on this chart it's women but the same works with men) that lived 100,000 years ago
The bottom line show all the women alive today.
Actually. Dinos were created with all of the other animals on day 6 of creation.The Bible teaches that Adam and Eve’s sin brought death into the world, but we know from modern science that the dinosaurs lived and died for millions of years prior to the arrival of Homo sapiens. How do Christians make sense of this?
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Do Dinosaurs Prove that Death Existed Before the Fall? - St. Paul Center
The Bible teaches that Adam and Eve's sin brought death into the world, but we know from modern science that the dinosaurs lived and died for millions of years prior to the arrival of Homo sapiens. How do Christians make sense of this?stpaulcenter.com