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Does Genetics Support an Old-Earth Timeline?

by Ken Ham on May 26, 2022

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All humans can be traced back to three major genetic groups. Now, these groups come from Noah’s daughters-in-law.

Now, all of us are ultimately descended from one woman—Eve. Ten generations later, the global flood reduced the population to just eight people. If this history recorded in Genesis is true, we’d expect to find few genetic differences between Noah’s daughters-in-law. Since there weren’t many generations before Noah’s flood, there wouldn’t have been time in the pre-flood world for mutations to stack up. And this is exactly what we see. These three groups of women show only a few genetic differences.

Yes, the evidence confirms God’s Word.

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