Y Chromosomal Adam and Mitochondrial Eve

Y Chromosomal Adam and Mitochondrial Eve are a stunning confirmation of the Biblical Account of the Special Creation of Adam and Eve by Almighty God which Evolutionists have either lied about or misrepresented. Creation Scientist Dr. Walt Brown explains: "Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) comes only from the mother. Where did she get hers? From her mother—and so on. Unless there is a rare mutation, mtDNA does not change from generation to generation.

DNA is written with an alphabet of four letters: A, G, T, and C. One copy of a person’s mtDNA is 16,559 letters long. Sometimes a mutation changes one of the mtDNA letters that a mother passes on to her child. These rare and somewhat random changes allow geneticists to identify families. For example, if your grandmother experienced an early mutation in her mtDNA, her children and any daughters’ children would carry the same changed mtDNA. It would differ, in general, from that in the rest of the world’s population.2"

Mt-DNA thus allows us to trace the ancestors of every living woman alive today in the matrilineal line. It culminates in Eve, whose name means, "the Mother of the Living". " 20 And Adam called the name of his wife Eve: because she was the Mother of all the living." (Gen 3:20, DRB). Today, like never before in human history, we have a Scientific Proof of a Common Maternal Ancestor Eve. Evolutionists of course make various erroneous claims about this Mitochondrial Eve and we will examine those in the remainder of this article.

Mitochondrial Eve

"In 1987, a team at the University of California at Berkeley published a ground-breaking study comparing the mtDNA of 147 people from five of the world’s geographic locations.3 The study concluded that all 147 had the same female ancestor. She is now called “Mitochondrial Eve.”

When Mitochondrial Eve lived

"When did Mitochondrial Eve live? To answer this, one must know how frequently mutations occur in mtDNA. Initial estimates were based on the following faulty reasoning: “Humans diverged from chimpanzees about 6-million years ago. Because the mtDNA in humans and chimpanzees differ in 1,000 places, one mutation occurs about every 12,000 years.” Another incorrect approach began by assuming Australia was first populated 40,000 years ago. The average number of mitochondrial mutations among Australian aborigines divided by 40,000 years gave another extremely slow mutation rate for mtDNA. These estimated rates, based on evolution, led to the mistaken belief that Mitochondrial Eve lived 100,000 – 200,000 years ago.10 This surprised evolutionists who believe that the first human female lived 6-million years ago.

A greater surprise, even disbelief, occurred in 1997, when it was announced that mutations in mtDNA occur 20 times faster than had been estimated. Without assuming humans and chimpanzees had a common ancestor 6-million years ago or that Australia was populated 40,000 years ago, mutation rates can now be determined directly by comparing the mtDNA of many mother-child pairs. Using the new, more accurate rate, Mitochondrial Eve lived only about 6,500 years ago.11"

Y Chromosomal Adam

"Is there a “genetic Adam”? At conception, each man received from his father a segment of DNA which lies on the Y chromosome; this makes him a male. Where did your father receive his segment? From his father. If we all descended from one man, all males should have the same Y chromosome segment—except for rare mutations.

A 1995 study of a worldwide sample of 38 men showed no changes in this segment of the Y chromosome that is always inherited from fathers. Had humans evolved and all men descended from one male who lived 500,000 years ago, each should carry about 19 mutations. Had he lived 150,000 years ago, 5.5 mutations would be expected.12 Because no changes were found, our common father probably lived only thousands of years ago. While Adam was father of all, our most recent common male ancestor was Noah."

In 2010, a comprehensive comparison was made between the DNA on the male Y chromosome of humans and chimpanzees. The differences were more than 30 percent! 13"

In sum, the evidence is simply overwhelming that Humanity did not descend from Apes but originated by Special Creation from Almighty God less than 10,000 years ago.

The kicker: the idea that there were other men than Adam and other women than Eve and all their descendants supposedly died out is fantastically improbable!

Mathematically, this fact is most certain. Consider, as Evolutionists claim, that there was even just one other couple, say Betty and Charles(B&C), in addition to Adam and Eve (A&E). Now, of the 8 Billion people on Earth, why are around 4 Billion people, 2 Billion men and 2 Billion women, not descended from B&C as we would expect? In fact, we find not even one, but only descendants of Adam and of Eve.

Dr. Brown comments: "For completeness, we must consider another possibility. Even if we all descended from the same female, other women may have been living at the same time. Their chains of continuous female descendants may have ended; their mtDNA died out. This happens with family names. If Mary and John XYZ have no sons, their unusual last name dies out. Also, many other men may have lived at the same time as our “genetic Adam,” but had no continuous chain of male descendants down to today. How likely is it that other men lived a few thousand years ago but left no continuous male descendants, and other women lived 6,000 years ago but left no continuous female descendants, and we end up today with a world population of 7 billion people? Extremely remote!14

Yes, new discoveries show that we carry traces of Adam and Eve in our cells. Furthermore, our common “parents” are probably removed from us by only 200 – 300 generations. All humans have a common and recent bond—a family bond. We are all cousins."

Why mtDNA disproves Apes-Human Evolution, contrary to Evolutionist Propaganda to the contrary

Dr. Brown concludes: "Furthermore, the mitochondrial DNA in all life (animals and plants), carries a unique signature, called the DNA barcode, that uniquely identifies 5.5 million species, including humans. Each species only produces others of the same species, and the gaps between species are huge. [See “Distinct Types” on page 9.] Members of each species, including humans, can all trace their ancestry back to a common male and female of the same species, all of whom began giving birth at about the same time.15"