Page 79 - A Definitive Reply to Evolutionist Propagand‪a

HARUN YAHYA

Evolutionary biologists often date the divergence of species by the
differences in genetic sequences in mitochondrial DNA. Even if pa-
ternal DNA is inherited very rarely, it could invalidate many of
their findings. 1
For this reason, the "mitochondrial Eve" thesis put forward on
The Discovery Channel has been totally invalidated by the above
finding. Evolutionist sources such as The Discovery Channel inter-
pret the genetic differences among the peoples of the world in the
light of their own prejudices to reinforce their own theories. That is
what invalidates the evolutionist claims based on genetic analyses.
Another research technique pointed to by evolutionists as sup-
porting their "out of Africa" theories is Y-chromosome analysis,
based on the study of the Y-chromosome, which can only be passed
on by the father. Yet when Y-chromosome and mtDNA analyses are
compared, the inconsistency of the evolutionist claims becomes
even more obvious. Furthermore, a great many paleontologists
fiercely oppose chronologies based on genetic analysis. The paleon-
tological evidence is completely at odds with mtDNA and Y-chro-
mosome analyses.
The researcher Spencer Wells, who studied the differences be-
tween the various human races using Y-chromosome analysis, sug-
gests that all human beings are descended from a common ancestor
living in Africa some 60,000 years ago. Paleontologist s basing their
figures on the fossil record claim this happened some 40,000 years
earlier. There is obviously an enormous difference between the
dates proposed by genetic analysis and the fossil record. Alison
Brooks, a paleontologist at George Washington University, says,
"The dates don't compare well to the order or the geography of the
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migration patterns revealed by the fossil record." The difference be-
tween Y-chromosome and mtDNA analyses is even greater.
Research based on the latter puts this departure back by 90,000
years, to 150,000 years ago.
It can be seen that evolutionists cannot even agree among them-
selves about the "out of Africa" theories discussed on The Discovery

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