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Since the estimates regarding this woman were based on mito-
chondrial DNA analyses, she is known as the "mitochondrial Eve." But

when examined with an unbiased scientific eye, the method employed
in this research can easily be seen as incapable of determining either the
dating or geographical location of the earliest humans. Evolutionists re-
ly on claims and hypotheses that cannot be proven, nor documented
with experiment and observation. Indeed, many scientists who support
the theory of evolution admit that this thesis has no scientific value.
Henry Gee, a member of the editorial board of Nature magazine,
described the results of mitochondrial DNA research as "garbage" in an
article titled "Statistical Cloud over African Eden." 161 In his article deal-

ing with 136 existing mtDNA series, Gee reported that the number of
family trees drawn up exceeded 1 billion. In other words, around 1 bil-
lion alternative family trees were ignored in this research, and only the
single tree was chosen that matched the hypothesis of a supposed evo-
lutionary transition between chimpanzees and human beings.
First off, none of these hypotheses constitute any scientific evi-
dence for the theory of evolution. For example, any evolutionist claim-
ing, on the basis of molecular clock analysis, that humans and chim-
panzees separated from one another 10 million years ago has already
started out assuming an evolutionary relationship between these two
species. Such people are thinking in a logical vicious circle. Studies of
this kind, built on such assumptions, are a waste of time.
The Washington University geneticist Alan Templeton states that

it is impossible to determine a date for the origin of humanity on the
basis of DNA series, because strains of DNA have become exceedingly
mixed up among human communities. 162 Viewed in mathematical
terms, this makes it impossible to distinguish the mtDNA belonging to
any single human in the family tree.
The most striking admission came from the authors of the thesis
themselves. Mark Stoneking from Pennsylvania State University, who