Back in May, I wrote a blog called "Genetics Reveals the Real Eden". My friend Francis found the complete article in a magazine called "Intelligent Life". It is all about a complex and sophisticated genetic study that has sought to uncover the origins of humanity. The study has uncovered, to the best of its ability, the likely location of "Eden", and the genetic version of "Adam" and "Eve". The problem here is that Adam and Eve they have discovered at this stage lived 60,000 years apart. It looks like there is still some more work to be done, as it would have been very difficult to produce a "Cain" or "Abel" with that time-lag of existence.Anyway, fascinating stuff and well worth a read. For those of us that read the Bible and see it as a source of truth for our lives, such research and evidence challenges us about the way in which we read and interpret important Bible chapters like Genesis 1, and really, how we understand the Bible in general. It also challenges us on how we consider the range of creation stories that various indigenous groups tell as a way of understanding their / our origins.
I've attached the article here if you are interested in reading it.
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