The OP writes:
Even if this were a small ancestral group instead of one woman, wouldn't that rule out fossil forms that existed much earlier than 200,000 years ago as our direct ancestors? If there is a substantial gap between our own species and the nearest fossil ancestor, would that not pose a problem to Darwinian gradualism? In other words, if H. erectus became extinct 250,000 years ago, from whom did we come from?
Nuggin responds writes:
Look at it this way:
You are decended from your mother. You are also decended from your grandmother. You are also decended from your great grandmother. Etc.
Let's say that you are a red head. That your mother is a red head. That her mother is a red head.
We can say that you are decended from your grandmother, and that that is where you get your red hair. However, we can just as easily say that you are also decended from your great great great grandmother.
The fact that your grandmother is closer in line than your great great great grandmother doesn't mean that you are not decended from both.
In this case - the "red hair" is the mDNA we can trace back to M-Eve. However, that doesn't mean that Eve's mother is not also a relative. Nor does it mean that Eve's great great great grandmother is not also a relative.
You completely dodged and evaded the aqua-blue box point/question.
Why ?
Inability to refute.
Where is the links/EVIDENCE between Erectus and us ?
Evolutionists can assert like crazy what supposedly happened millions of years ago (because their assertions are not falsifiable) but are tongue tied concerning recent anthropological ancestry.
Genesis is literally true.
History shows the farther back in calendar time = the more intelligent homo genus was. This falsifies the reverse claims of the Evolutionary scenario in its tracks. In response Darwinists must deny the intelligence increase lest sudden Adam, created ultra-intelligent, is seen as true.
The irony of also using red-heads in your dodge: do you know where the only red-race (Irish) originates from ?
Answer: read the description of David in your Bible.
Now here is the truth about Mitochondrial Eve:
http://www.nwcreation.net/wiki/index.php?title=Mitochondr...
According to Codex Alexandrinus (5th century), one of the three Great Uncial mss, genealogic calculations place the creation of Adam at 5100 BC. [source: Dr. Adam Rutherford]
In ancient history matters, 1500 years is nothing, that is the difference between the links 6500 and the Codex chronology of 5100 BC.
The point is we are in the ballpark while evolution is in outer space suppressing the truth just like the Bible predicted:
Romans 1:18 (New KJV)
"....who suppress the truth in unrighteousness."
Ray
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