Selaphiel said:
It only presents a problem if you assume that populations always grow....
At the very least it seems you agree that the world population is consistent within the Biblical time frame.
Selaphiel said:
6days said:
the truth that we originated from 8 individuals 4500 years ago.
Must have been extremely scarce with people on earth around the time of Jesus then.
Perhaps 700 million people.
Selaphiel said:
6days said:
BTW... the current 'low' rate of doubling the population every 60 years is not a high enough rate to counter the high rate of deleterious mutations causing the human genome to crumble. Genetic burden in the human genome is consistent with God's Word, the recent creation, and the population bottleneck.
Yeah, pardon me if I take your competence in genetics with a grain of salt. ....Please explain the genetic mechanisms that you are assuming here, with references to scientific literature
Ha...... Selaphiel, I have no idea if you understand genetics at all but my guess is you don't. Virtually every geneticist, and population geneticist understands genetic burden is increasing in humans. Natural selection is unable to remove the vast amount of mutations that accumulate / 'pile on' from one generation to the next. Journals have many articles where geneticists recognize the problem, then propose models trying to explain how the high mutation rate might fit into their belief system. However..... the high mutation rate, and the worlds current population easily fits within the creation and flood model.
As to citations within the scientific literature, you can google but here are a few examples:
In the journal Nature there was an article titled " High genomic deleterious mutation rates in hominids" . The authors Walker and Keightley say things such as " it is difficult to explain how human populations could have survived"...."a high rate of deleterious mutation is paradoxical in a species with a low reproductive rate". And... deleterious mutations great appears to be so high in humans and I were close relatives that it is doubtful that such species could survive"
The journal PNAS has sn article by J. Crow titled 'The the high spontaneous mutation rate: is it a health risk?'. Crow says " it seems clear that for the past few centuries harmful mutations have been accumulating... the decrease in viability from mutation accumulation is some 1 to 2% per generation".