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From: werner@aecom.YU.EDU (Craig Werner)
Newsgroups: sci.misc,sci.bio,soc.women
Subject: Re: Univerrsal Common Female Ancestor
Message-ID: <1367@aecom.YU.EDU>
Date: Mon, 12-Oct-87 17:22:39 EDT
Article-I.D.: aecom.1367
Posted: Mon Oct 12 17:22:39 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 15-Oct-87 00:48:28 EDT
References: <894@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> <1248@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Organization: Albert Einstein Coll. of Med., NY
Lines: 26
Keywords: Eve?
Summary: too, too old
Xref: mnetor sci.misc:547 sci.bio:732 soc.women:7767

In article <1248@bsu-cs.UUCP>, dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) writes:
> In article <894@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> elturner@phoenix.Princeton.EDU 
> (Edwin L Turner) writes:
> 
>      All living people (or at least ~99% of them) have a single common
>      female ancestor on their purely maternal line....
> 
> I wonder why Creationists haven't picked up on this.
> Rahul Dhesi         

Two reasons why Creationists haven't picked up on it:

	1. It was discussed in the scientific literature on evolution,
and if you reject evolution, you don't tend to keep up with the 
literature.
	2.  "Eve," so called, is far too old.  She is anywhere from
50,000 to 500,000 years old, and as everyone knows, the world was
created in 6 days and nights, oh, about 5000 years ago  (I'm not
whether Bishop Usher's calculations agree with the Jewish calendar,
which would put the Earth's age at 5248 years plus 4 1/2 weeks.)

-- 
	        Craig Werner   (future MD/PhD, 3 years down, 4 to go)
	     werner@aecom.YU.EDU -- Albert Einstein College of Medicine
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