From: chris@dickinson.uk.net   
      
   On Sunday, 22 April 2018 15:13:39 UTC+1, jen53ge...@gmail.com  wrote:   
      
      
   It is a source like all others, it is not always factual but all we have to go   
   on until proven or disproven.   
      
      
   Once upon a time, I would have said that biblical genealogies were pointless,   
   only for fun, and not to be taken seriously. They were, as Popper might have   
   said, not open to any form of 'falsification'.   
      
   Though, I can see that DNA has opened up the possibility of making those old   
   genealogies live again - not now, but maybe in the next generation, or two, or   
   three. DNA evidence is already being scraped from ancient material in a way   
   that wouldn't have    
   been thought possible a few years ago, with no doubt a comprehensive worldwide   
   public DNA database of the living in due course. And, probably, at some point,   
   someone will work out a vastly better analytical schema than we have now.   
      
   Until then, all such genealogical constructs are still pointless.   
      
   Chris   
      
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