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Certainly true. Actually, our matrilineal common ancestor probably lived about 140,000 years ago, while our patrilineal common ancestor lived about 60,000 years ago. Molecular biologists humorously refer to them at Adam and Eve, even though the lived some 80,000 years appart

You'd need an excellent sense of humor (as well as a furtive imagination) to believe that. Of course, that belief would solidify the sarcastic meaning of the first statement...yep, real geniuses.

There may have been, but no evidence remains. It seems that, several thousand years later, all but one male died without successful progeny, so evidence of patrimony before that time is now gone..

Or, they never existed. Instead, mankind began with one male and one female. No need to perform hoop tricks and fantastical fairy thoughts...just simple facts is all that is needed. I love science fiction as much as anyone but I am grounded in science fact, a trait woefully lacking in most so-called scientists.

Science explains the evidence.

Except where 'scientists' reject the truth. There, science reverts to superstition, fallacy, and propaganda. Although science validates the wisdom of a very few, it simultaneously promulgates the ignorance of the vast majority. It's only as good as the hands to which it is entrusted. The pseudo-science being foisted upon an unsuspecting audience is to true science as what alchemy is to true chemistry.

Why are people so pathetically gullible?

And you people expect the rest of us to take science seriously?

I take science very seriously...it's the 'I'll pretend that I'm smarter than you but I really don't have a clue scientists' that I take exception to.

SoylentGreen's point was that a single individual could be responsible for introducing a genetic trait into a population. That is correct.

And if we call that "single individual" God, what then?

Not really. At least it isn't based on a belief in magic and mythology.

Actually it is. The Christian religion is based on evidence and fact and it completely lambasts magic, superstition, and mythology; whereas evolution only exists in those realms and has, in fact, no place in reality.

Some of them have. Species evolution is pretty obvious. Sometimes humans cause the evolution to happen on purpose. You just don't seem to know enough about science to grasp what is being talked about.

'Species evolution' is implied in the Bible. What isn't supported, however, is the fanciful fallacy that all life has a common ancestor. It asserts, instead, that the different 'kinds' of animals were created from the very beginning...you know, like in genetic engineering.

Again, you're being silly. Religion assumes the existance of some sort of supernatural being. Some religions assume that the mythology of ancient, bronze age herdsmen is somehow the word of this assumed supernatural, magical being. Many religious people, based on their mythology, reject the fact that the earth is very, very old and that the universe is much older than the earth. Based on religion, some reject the fact of common descent, even of quite similar species. And of course, religion rejects the fact that we can no nothing about the supernatural.

According to your definition of religion, then, Christianity is not a religion...at least, TRUE Christianity. Actually, while decrying religionists' lack of understanding in matters of science (or, specifically, evolution), you display a total ignorance concerning religion.

For example, did you know that Christians were initially called 'atheists' because they refused to believe in mythology (in oher words, the hundreds of gods and goddesses worshipped in the Roman and Greek cultures)? Not suprisingly, it is these very same superstitious cultures of Rome and Greece from which our current laws and sciences originate. Is it any wonder that science is still saturated with superstition and mythology?

You don't know much about 'ancient' man. The Pantheon, an engineering marvel that still rivals any that exist today, is over 1800 years old, built by Hadrian, although originally it was built by Marcus Agrippa, son-in-law of Augustus. The concrete used to build this enormous dome (without the use of any reinforcing iron rods) still surpasses in quality any made today.

Your "ancient bronze-age herdsman" or their peers may have been almost as superstitious as present day evolutionists but they were indeed much smarter than their atrophied-brain counterparts of today.
As mankind's intelligence deteriorates with each passsing millenium, it is one of life's ironies that each generation thinks itself smarter than the one before. As mankind becomes more ignorant, his ability to recognize his ignorance diminishes.

Whatcha gonna do...