Evolution or Creation?
Mitochondrial Eve
The nucleus of
the human cell contains 99.5% of our DNA - half comes from mother and other
half from father. Because shuffled together, difficult to tell which parent
contributed which element.[38]
Mitochondrial DNA is found outside the nucleus of the cell where there are hundreds
of energy producing components called mitochondrial, each of which contain a
circular strand of DNA contributed exclusively by the mother. Because it remains
relatively unchanged it could be used to trace a person's lineage back for thousands
of years. And perhaps even to the beginning of time. In 1987 compared my DNA
of 147 people from 5 of the world's geographic locations. Concluded all of the
147 people had the same female ancestor, known as the "Mitochondrial Eve."[38]
This led to the conclusion that in the beginning there really was really one
set of parents which would mean either that Mitochondrial Eve could be the Biblical
Eve, or that all modern humans are descended from a very small population humans
that existed at one time. Evolutionists were unprepared to deal with these ideas
and proposed a far fetched explanation about Mitochondrial Eve: Her family somehow
spread across the globe and replaced all the other archaic humans who just happened
to have failed in their efforts to produce female offspring. That's pretty hard
to believe.[38]
Using what they call the "molecular clock," evolutionists tried to
prove that Mitochondrial Eve lived far too long ago to be the Biblical eve.
By rewinding that clock, scientists came up with an estimated rate of mutation
and were thus were able to calculate the supposed age of Mitochondrial Eve.
Based on this theory, they were surprised to discover that Mitochondrial Eve
existed approximately 250,000 [ET*] years ago, as opposed to their supposed
common ancestor who lived some 3 ½ million [ET*] years ago. The molecular
clock threw the evolutionary clock out the window.[38]
However laboratory discoveries in 1998 indicated that mutations in Mitochondrial
DNA occur 20 times faster than the original estimate, indicating that Mitochondrial
Eve lived between 6000 and 6500 years ago. This is consistent with the Biblical
time line.[38]
* Evolutionary Time Scale