Don't sweat it Dad! Laugh all you want! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" /> I was not speaking from a lifetime of study on the subject by any means. I do find it all very interesting though.
I think in reality we would all like to know exactly where we come from, because life is so diverse. Are we heaven sent? And if we are; where did the other tribes come from? (christian biblical) Or did we evolve from ameba? If the latter is the case, why hasn't our DNA changed since then? If it has then, perhaps natural selection is taking over and the female chromasone is becomming more dominant. Why have apes not evolved into man yet? And why have we not devolved into cats, because we know they are the master race anyway! LOL! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/kitty.gif" alt="" /> Here kitty, kitty! I stand corrected! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" /> I think....
Hi,
I am not laughing at you and I do not even dare do such a thing.
Your post was a very nice post with high humour content. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />
You also have all the right to ask such questions and you are not alone in doing that.
Perhaps all humans ask the same questions.
Ok, I shall try to avoid technical words and simplify as much as possible.
Our social and political convictions are biased towards forcing a biblical relation that never existed.
The search for a common mother is nothing but evidence to the non-scientific approach because the hypothesis is religious and not based on any findings. However, the twist here is in using findings to prove a religious hypothesis.
The genetic dominance is not in the same sense of dominance in literature.
Imagine that the colour of the eye of the fruit fly is red because that colour is produced by a set of biochemicals related to a specific gene. If that gene is defective one or more of such chemicals should be absent leading to an eye that is albino (no colour). But we know that genetic code is inherited from a mother and a father equally, therefore one of two genes could be sufficient to provide those chemicals and the eye is coloured.
Only when both the father and the mother have defective drosophila-eye-pigment-gene does that fly show albino recession. Genetic dominance is chemical and has no one on one relation with gender unless it was related to the X and Y chromosomes.
I shall give you some logical examples as a reference of thoughts to be used as tools for making decisions.
News, stories, lyrics and many diverse written materials on the web are in English.
Such diversity in the written content is almost as infinite as the genetic code is.
If we assume that all writings must have one origin can we prove it?
If we assume that all letters, constants and vowels came from one letter, can we prove it?
That is absolutely neither correct nor possible, because assumptions without rigorous foundations are not science but could be anything else.
Given the size of earth and the homogeneity of its atmosphere and oceans and a very consistent distribution of the crust into continents, why would one single person, be that male (Adam) or female (Eve), suddenly show up or even be the offspring of another species as a mutation? Science has already proved that this is impossible in any biblical way. Temperature variations are known to vary along the line of South-North, but it forms a belt that surrounds earth east and west. Most probably, the most ancient species related to the modern man lived and concentrated in tribes on the equatorial line where plenty of rain is essential for drinking and riverbanks are even better.
Breathing and drinking come first and is followed by eating; hence food resources are critical too. We are very similar to Bonobo apes that it is not far fetched to have a common ancestry but we left the trees for living in caves by seaside after discovering fire.
This did not happen in one specific place but in too many places where variations of the environment induced small variations in the characteristics of that species and by migrations and re-combinations even more diversity came to be. Evolution does not work by selection only because that would narrow the variation rather than enhance diversity. Food and adaptation are the strongest factors beside selection. If I ever gave in to accept our evolution from prokaryotes then why do we overlook the fact that prokaryotes multiplied and billions dominated the scene at one point in time? This implies that we could evolve in a parallel manner rather than from any specific cell. This is what I call group-evolution not individual evolution. A group has a better chance to survive than any individual.
