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Geneticists call her Mitocondrial Eve, the mother of humanity who lived 200,000 years ago. They say DNA studies trace humans back in time to a woman who probably lived in East Africa, south of Egypt. A Visual Walk Through Genesis, page 40.
SCIENTISTS WHO STUDY HUMAN GENETICS say all humans today likely descended from one woman they call Mitochondrial Eve. “Mitochondrial” refers to a type of DNA that’s passed on from mother to child with genes that rarely change. Geneticists estimate …
HEADS EXPLODE over this question. I’ve seen it happen. We’ve talked about this question in my Bible study class. People in the group explored reasons why some Christians don’t believe there was a literal Adam and Eve, or a flood that covered the …
DON’T BEAT ME UP for doing this…for messing with the Bible. I do it as a fun devotional, in my spare time. I try to take the Bible’s meaning and wrap it in words that folks outside the Christian faith could easily follow. Those are …
IT’S THE QUESTION OF THE WEEK. It comes from Elaine. She gets a free book for asking it. Question came up in Sunday School today: Why did God make woman from the rib of man and not from dust? OK, Elaine, this is going to come as a shock. Not all …
“God planted a garden in Eden in the east, and there he placed the man he had made.” Genesis 2:8 A GARDEN PARADISE, Eden (EE den) was home to the first humans. Its location, “in the east,” may point toward the Persian Gulf areas of Iraq and Iran—east …
I’M TRYING MY HAND at some easy-reading Bible commentary. Here’s a rough cut, first draft on an excerpt about the snake in the Garden of Eden. The snake that chatted up Eve. This section zeroes in on the line about God vowing perpetual …
