Human Migration and the Great Flood
Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2014 11:46 am
I was reading on wikipedia about human migration across the earth, which I find an interesting part of human history
This is a map of human migration over time plotted according to how old DNA samples place humans in those areas, and thus inferring how early humanity arrived in those areas. However, theres one thing that comes to mind when reading this. If this is an account of human migration since the genesis of humanity, where does Noah and the Great Flood fit in? There doesn't seem to be an instance where all of humanity is wiped out and followed by all of humanity originating from that area like you would expect if there was an event destroying all but Noah and his family. Global or local, the story seems to imply that all of humanity at the time was wiped out.
Is the chart accepted by paleontologists way off? Is humanity's origination in Africa according this graph stemming from Noah and his family following the flood? Does believing in Biblical history require one to reject paleontology? Why doesn't science seem to show of any bottleneck in the spread of humanity?
This is a map of human migration over time plotted according to how old DNA samples place humans in those areas, and thus inferring how early humanity arrived in those areas. However, theres one thing that comes to mind when reading this. If this is an account of human migration since the genesis of humanity, where does Noah and the Great Flood fit in? There doesn't seem to be an instance where all of humanity is wiped out and followed by all of humanity originating from that area like you would expect if there was an event destroying all but Noah and his family. Global or local, the story seems to imply that all of humanity at the time was wiped out.
Is the chart accepted by paleontologists way off? Is humanity's origination in Africa according this graph stemming from Noah and his family following the flood? Does believing in Biblical history require one to reject paleontology? Why doesn't science seem to show of any bottleneck in the spread of humanity?