From: martinharran@gmail.com   
      
   On Sat, 10 Jan 2026 11:45:26 -0600, DB Cates    
   wrote:   
      
   >On 2026-01-10 11:34 a.m., John Harshman wrote:   
      
   [...]   
      
   >  But I really have no idea what   
   >> point Martin is trying to make. What, if anything, would a putative Adam   
   >> and Eve, whether or not they were the only humans at the time, have to   
   >> do with Y-Adam or mt-Eve?   
   >>   
   >Beats me.   
      
   There are two points.   
      
   The *immediate* one is that Harshman tried to make out that I was   
   claiming Y-Adam or mt-Eve are a couple. Although I told him that was   
   not the case several times in the past, I was prepared to put it down   
   to a memory lapse on his part but the more he has tried to wriggle out   
   of it, even after I clearly stated that it was not what I was saying,   
   the more it looks as if he was quite deliberate in what he claimed.   
      
   The *underlying* point is that Harshman and others have tried in the   
   past to scornfully dismiss Christian belief in humans being descended   
   from one couple but we are in fact descended from many such couples.   
      
   Whether or not any of those couples would qualify as the source of the   
   Genesis Adam and Eve, is of course, a separate argument.   
      
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