Early Human MigrationDiseases Follow Human Origin and Spread
by Fazale R. Rana, Ph.D. Perception doesn’t always match reality. Such is the case when it comes to the question of human origins. Some Christians perceive that scientific advance affirms evolution and negates biblical creation. But in reality, scientists investigating humanity’s origin have made no discoveries that challenge a biblical understanding of origins. In fact, recent advances in genetics provide compelling support for that perspective. New Date for First Aussies
4/1/2004 Australia, do we have a problem? It may seem so, or at least it did a few years ago. The RTB creation model places the creation of humanity at roughly 50,000 years ago, with the spread of peoples and civilization outward from Mesopotamia some time after that, but probably no earlier than 30,000 years ago.1 Research findings published in 1996 claimed that aborigines inhabited Australia as early as 50,000-75,000 years ago.2 RTB’s scenario appeared to contradict the data. Time to go back to the drawing board? The Broken Tie that Binds
By Hugh Ross According to Genesis, the human race both before and after the Flood ignored God's direct command to spread out and fill the earth. Despite God's warnings about the seriousness of disobedience, several generations of post-Flood people refused to budge from the Mesopotamian flood plain. To get the people moving, God had to destroy the civilization of Babel. He brought such a severe disruption of communication that people finally scattered themselves over the six habitable continents. The Great Divide of Peleg's Time
By Hugh Ross In the genealogy of Noah's son Shem, we see the name Peleg and along with it a brief note that "in his time the earth was divided." I've linked this statement with the break up of the warm land bridge that permitted migration from Siberia to Alaska-eastern hemisphere to western-between 14,000 and 11,000 years ago. Y-Chromosome Reveals Evolutionary Limits
Hugh Ross Y-chromosome studies have just answered a long-standing anthropological question: Are modern Japanese people descended from the Jomon or from the Yayoi people?1 The Jomon migrated to Japan from the Asian mainland about 12,000 to 14,000 years ago when sea levels were so low that land bridges permitted. The Yayoi arrived in ships from the Korean peninsula in about 250 B.C.
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