So let's take a look at your evidence;
imageinvisible writes:
It would be very off topic to go into much detail here concerning the ancestry of man. I will howevery show you my sources and give you a quick rundown.{Link to AiG}
I saw nothing in your post, or in the page you link to that resembled evidence. I saw a number of unsubstantiated claims, but no actual evidence of a "DNA bottleneck".
imageinvisible writes:
Granny writes:
Are you saying that all humans are genetically identical?
Identical in that there is only one race, Human.
That is not what you previously said. You took this quote from Wikipedia ;
quote:
Genetic testing has revealed that all the specimens {of wollemi pine} are genetically indistinguishable
and claimed that;
imageinvisible writes:
This same 'bottlekneck' can be found in almost every species alive today, including humans
All being of one species is not comparable to an entire species being genetically indistinguishable.
As for your salinity claims, I was intrigued to read this section of the Austin and Humphries paper that your AiG link seems to be basing its argument upon;
quote:
The world inventory of modern marine halite deposits must be accumulating today at a rate of less than 1 x 108 kg/yr. Thus, the flux of Na+ in modern marine halite deposition is: B4 < 4 x 107 kg/yr. Today's oceanic output of Na+ as halite is trivial when compared to the modern river input.
Original source
here.
They seem to be assuming that because they see little halite deposition in
modern oceans, that means that they can safely extrapolate backwards, and work out what the rates were in the past. This sounds just like the nineteenth century uniformitarianism that you are so critical of.
It is also deeply misguided, since it ignores the vast halite deposits that have been laid down in the past, as is evidenced by the deposits exploited by salt mining.
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