MAJOR SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY: Did a mysterious extinction event precede Adam and Eve?
NOV 24, 2018
FOX NEWS: In one of the most provocative and misunderstood studies of the year, scientists in the U.S. and Switzerland have made an astonishing discovery: All humans alive today are the offspring of a common father and mother – an Adam and Eve – who walked the planet 100,000 to 200,000 years ago, which by evolutionary standards is like yesterday. Moreover, the same is true of nine out of every 10 animal species, meaning that nearly all of Earth’s creatures living today sprang into being recently from some seminal, Big Bang-like event.
Mark Stoeckle at Rockefeller University and David Thaler at the University of Basel reached this striking conclusion after analyzing the DNA “bar codes” of five million animals from 100,000 different species. The bar codes are snippets of DNA that reside outside the nuclei of living cells – so-called mitochondrial DNA, which mothers pass down from generation to generation.
With each reproduction, errors creep into the bar code, as they do when you repeatedly photocopy a document. By measuring the accumulated errors – the blurriness or “diversity” among the bar codes – scientists are able to infer the passage of time.
That’s how Stoeckle and Thaler concluded that ninety percent of all animal species alive today come from parents that all began giving birth at roughly the same time, less than a quarter-million years ago. “This conclusion is very surprising,” Thaler avers, “and I fought against it as hard as I could.”
What caused animal life on Earth to be almost completely renewed such a short time ago? For now, it remains a mystery.
The rest here: https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/did-a-mysterious-extinction-event-precede-adam-and-eve
WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?
Assuming that the findings are solid and the interpretation is sound, it’s a fascinating DISCOVERY which would help renew my confidence that prominent scientists still understand the "scientific method" and are at least willing to consider discarding theories which are no longer supported by empirical evidence.
On the other hand, what does this tell us about those whose job it is to manage “public opinion?” Are they losing control over information which can so profoundly alter the public’s beliefs in ways that are unpredictable?
This certainly doesn’t seem to be case for the wealth of empirical evidence which undermines the public’s unfounded belief in things like the federal prohibition of (some) drugs, the Copernican principle, or muh "man made global warming". For example, just today on Drudge I saw the headlines "Govt 'global warming' report warns of worsening disasters…" But, if you look at the actual empirical evidence in the scientific literature, it is quite clear that the recent increase in cyclonic tropical storm activity as well as the increase in earthquake and volcanic activity (not only on Earth, but also on other planets in our solar system) is due in large part to unusually low sunspot activity. We are currently experiencing in a solar minimum, which has significantly weakened the earth's magnetic field making us much more vulnerable to solar CME's and cosmic radiation (Space weather).
So, I suppose my immediate impression to this new ADAM and EVE news story is one of intense suspicion. Not because of a blind adherence to the dogmas of scientism, but rather because such powerful scientific “evidence” is being released to the public through the corporate controlled media. I just have so little faith in their ability or desire to provide truthful objective information to the people that it makes me wonder if there is some ulterior motive at play here.