i don't trust the dating, but if the data is correct then it stands to reason there is some finagling going on to produce the large time span for both. my point is, that the scientific data is pointing towards the validty of the Bible -all people came from adam and eve, but the details are sketchy considering the source.
Just because
you don't trust the dating doesn't mean that there is any finagling going on. The fact is that you can't possibly comprehend that there can be anything wrong with your book.
The point is that you are assuming Mitochondrial-Eve was the first Human woman. Mitochondrial-Eve is the MRCA (Most Recent Common Ancestor) of all living humans. Whether it was 10,000 or 50,000 or 100,000 or 200,000 years ago matters not. Mitochondral-Eves mother was also Common ancestor as was her mother and her mother.... The same goes for Y-Chromosome Adam
Except his line starts later
Ancestors Tale writes:
Second, Eve and Adam were not a couple. it would be a mojor coincidence if they ever met, and they could well have been separated by tens of thousands of years. As a subsidiary point, there are independent reasons to believe that Eve preceded Adam. Males are more variable in reproductive success than females: where some females have five times as many children as other females, the most successful males could have hundreds of times as many children as unsuccessful males. A male with alarge harumfinds it easy to be a universal ancestor. A female, since she is less likely to have a large family, needs a larger number of generations to achieve the same feat. And indeed, today's best 'molecular clock' estimates for their respective dates are about 140, 000 years ago for Eve and only about 60, 000 for Adam.
The Ancestor's Tale, Richard Dawkins, p 54
There is no better love between 2 people than mutual respect for each other WT Young, 2002
Who gave anyone the authority to call me an authority on anything. WT Young, 1969
Since Evolution is only ~90% correct it should be thrown out and replaced by Creation which has even a lower % of correctness. W T Young, 2008