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By Dr. Fazale Rana
New insight into the origin of agriculture buttresses a weak spot in RTB’s human origins model.
All scientific models have weaknesses. RTB’s creation model is no exception. Even though the RTB human origins model finds powerful support from the scientific record, there is some unease related to the origin of agriculture. Recent discoveries—recounted in an article written by science journalist Michael Balter—help alleviate some of this discomfort.
The RTB model maintains that:
- Humanity traces back to a single woman and a single man.
- Humanity’s original population size was relatively small.
- Humanity originates in a single location at or near the Middle East.
- Humanity’s origin dates back to between 10,000 to 100,000 years ago.
- Humanity spread around the world, recently, from near the Middle East.
Studies on the genetic diversity of people groups from around the world are provocative in light of the RTB model. This work indicates that modern humans originated at a single location (at or near the presumed site of the Garden of Eden), recently (less than 100,000 years ago), and from a small initial population that traces back to a single man and woman. The archeological and genetic evidence shows that by 50,000 to 60,000 years ago humans had spread from near the Middle East into Asia and Europe with a migration pattern that fits with the biblical text…
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