From: chris@dickinson.uk.net   
      
   On Monday, 23 April 2018 19:04:27 UTC+1, Graeme Wall  wrote:   
   > On 23/04/2018 16:52, Chris Dickinson wrote:   
   > > On Monday, 23 April 2018 16:25:35 UTC+1, Graeme Wall  wrote:   
   > >> On 23/04/2018 14:20, Chris Dickinson wrote:   
   > >>> On Sunday, 22 April 2018 15:13:39 UTC+1, jen53ge...@gmail.com  wrote:   
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   > >>>    
   > >>> 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.   
   > >>>   
   > >>   
   > >> You can't get DNA from people who never existed, Adam, Eve, Noah, Woden   
   > >> and so on as cited in the original.   
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   > >> --    
   > >> Graeme Wall   
   > >> This account not read.   
   > >    
   > > True enough! But you may be able to establish lines that reflect at least   
   part of the biblical or saga stories. And, so far as geneological bottlenecks   
   are concerned, perhaps it will be possible to point direct routes to the Adam,   
   the Eve or the Noah,   
    or whatever, who may have provided a common ancestry for any specific group.   
   > >    
   >    
   > Sagas possibly because many of them are about known historical figures.    
   > But Adam and Eve, Noah and so on never existed. Though DNA analysis has    
   > shown that we are all, apparently, descended from a putative Eve who    
   > lived a lot longer than 6000 years ago..   
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   >    
   > --    
   > Graeme Wall   
   > This account not read.   
      
      
   Yes, I have over-egged my argument.   
      
   The putative Eve is where I got my bottleneck idea from. It does, though, seem   
   unlikely that even a futuristic science could get back beyond a few thousand   
   years.   
      
   Ah well, perhaps we need a time-machine that can take cheek swabs.   
      
   Chris   
      
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