DNA Traces to Noah - Messianic Literary Corner

Scientists  have been comparing the genetic differences between every  major people  group around the globe. How did those differences arise? Assuming  that God placed the ideal mtDNA (mitochondrial DNA) sequence into Eve,  all those differences arose by mutations since the Genesis 3  curse,  about 6,000 years ago. Other scientists measured the rate at  which  these copying errors occur. Though very slow—we acquire about one   mutation every 6 generations—a few dozen mutations could appear after several millennia.

Dr. Nathaniel Jeanson downloaded publicly available human mitochondrial genome sequence data to do exactly that. Publishing in Answers Research Journal,   his results show that the number of today's mtDNA differences exactly   matches the number predicted by the Bible's 6,000 years of human history.  Mitochondrial DNA  from around the world shows no  trace of the 200,000 or so years' worth  of mutations that the evolution  model predicts. (click reference)

  Geneticists construct tree diagrams using software that places the  most  similar genetic sequences near one another, and the most  dissimilar  sequences on the longest branches. Jeanson found at least  two distinct  patterns in the human mtDNA tree diagram that confirm  Genesis.  The center of the diagram shows three  main trunks. Each reflects a  specific mtDNA sequence with only a  handful of differences from the  other two.

Could these three trunks represent the unique mtDNA from the wives of Shem, Ham, and Japheth?

 A second pattern emerges that also fits the three wives explanation.   Assuming longer times between each generation, according to the  biblical  record of lifespans before the Flood, and using today's slow  mutation  rate, the 1,656 years between Adam and Noah would have  produced the  small number of differences that the short lines between  each trunk  represent.  Jeanson compared the small number of mtDNA differences between each trunk, or central node,   with the relatively large number of differences in the branches. He   wrote, "About 1,660 years passed from Creation to the Flood, whereas   4,365 years passed from the Flood to the present—a ~2.6:1 time ratio.   Consistent with this, the branches connecting the nodes to one another   were much shorter than the branches spraying out from the nodes—as if   the short branches represented pre-Flood mutations, and the long   branches represented post-Flood mutations."¹

  It appears that modern genetics confirms Genesis, which says, "So Noah   went out, and his sons and his wife and his sons' wives with him." (click reference)