Wednesday, August 04, 2004
The email, the email, what what the email!
So I got this today
Message: 12
Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 10:00:24 -0700
From: "Debra"
Subject: RE: Re: Mitochondrial DNA is the key
This may sound initially unrelated, but there has been a recent program on
the Discovery Channel about the Yellowstone supervolcano, which I found
incredibly interesting on any number of scores. There are signs the thing,
which is overdue for a massive explosion, 2500 times Mt. St. Helens, may
be getting active again. If it blew, we'd all be in deep deep trouble. The
reason they call it a supervolcano is that it would probably kill everyone
within a 500 or 600 mile radius, then send the planet into "nuclear
winter" for 4 or 5 years. IOW, there would be no harvests for 4 or 5
years till all the ash in the atmosphere cleared to let the sun back in,
and huge numbers would starve. Rather a similar effect as a massive comet
strike. (Every time I think of it, I wonder about the prophesied "Three
Days of Darkness".)
Anyhow, what makes it relevant to this discussion is that some scientists
are linking the last planetary supervolcano eruption (Toba, 75,000 years
ago) to a so-called "genetic bottleneck". The idea is that mitochondrial
evidence points to the fact that prior to 75,000 years ago, the human
population of the world was far more genetically diverse than it is now.
Then, suddenly, about 75,000 years ago, some planetary-wide disaster
happened that reduced the human population to a few thousand, probably in
a couple of closely related population groups. Those of us alive today
are all descendents of that small group of a few thousand, hence modern
man's remarkable genetic similarity. Hence also, I would guess, the
reason why we can all be traced back to one "Eve" about a hundred thousand
years ago.
Food for thought.
Debra
"The Mystery of Things": http://www.idyllspress.com/books.htm
homepage: http://www.debramurphy.com
blog: http://idyllist.blogspot.com
debra@debramurphy.com
And i started to think. Hmm. The mitocondrial Adam/eve stuff is old, but this volcano . . . does it sound a little Noahic to anyone but me? I've always thought that therewas a mankilling disaster in the tradition of Noah even if there was no actual flood. This gets me going along those lines onece more.
Message: 12
Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 10:00:24 -0700
From: "Debra"
Subject: RE: Re: Mitochondrial DNA is the key
This may sound initially unrelated, but there has been a recent program on
the Discovery Channel about the Yellowstone supervolcano, which I found
incredibly interesting on any number of scores. There are signs the thing,
which is overdue for a massive explosion, 2500 times Mt. St. Helens, may
be getting active again. If it blew, we'd all be in deep deep trouble. The
reason they call it a supervolcano is that it would probably kill everyone
within a 500 or 600 mile radius, then send the planet into "nuclear
winter" for 4 or 5 years. IOW, there would be no harvests for 4 or 5
years till all the ash in the atmosphere cleared to let the sun back in,
and huge numbers would starve. Rather a similar effect as a massive comet
strike. (Every time I think of it, I wonder about the prophesied "Three
Days of Darkness".)
Anyhow, what makes it relevant to this discussion is that some scientists
are linking the last planetary supervolcano eruption (Toba, 75,000 years
ago) to a so-called "genetic bottleneck". The idea is that mitochondrial
evidence points to the fact that prior to 75,000 years ago, the human
population of the world was far more genetically diverse than it is now.
Then, suddenly, about 75,000 years ago, some planetary-wide disaster
happened that reduced the human population to a few thousand, probably in
a couple of closely related population groups. Those of us alive today
are all descendents of that small group of a few thousand, hence modern
man's remarkable genetic similarity. Hence also, I would guess, the
reason why we can all be traced back to one "Eve" about a hundred thousand
years ago.
Food for thought.
Debra
"The Mystery of Things": http://www.idyllspress.com/books.htm
homepage: http://www.debramurphy.com
blog: http://idyllist.blogspot.com
debra@debramurphy.com
And i started to think. Hmm. The mitocondrial Adam/eve stuff is old, but this volcano . . . does it sound a little Noahic to anyone but me? I've always thought that therewas a mankilling disaster in the tradition of Noah even if there was no actual flood. This gets me going along those lines onece more.
