Claims about how many people it took to produce modern human genetic diversity require some notion of how long it took to produce that diversity. Such dates come from the evolutionary assumptions that molecules-to-man evolution produced life and that humans evolved through a series of progressively more human-like hominids after diverging from an ape-like ancestor millions of years ago. Molecular clock dating—which sounds like something very precise and reliable—is in fact built on a series of unverifiable assumptions and circular reasoning. Like any clock, the “molecular clock” must be calibrated. And if the assumptions on which the molecular clock is based are not reliable, then all times derived from the clock are likewise invalid.
Posted on: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 18:23:29 +0000
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