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Comment by arp242

2 days ago

While we don't really know how many biological processes work, we have a pretty good idea how the basic mechanics of life work. The discovery of "something akin to DNA fingerprinting that lets people discover ancestry" would be the type of major discovery that would completely upset our understanding of things. Such a discovery would have to be consistent with all the evidence we already have (and is explained by our current understanding) while simultaneously introducing entire new concepts.

Not strictly impossible of course, but very few things are impossible in the strictest sense. For all practical purposes, given our understanding of the world, "there is no imaginable technology that could do this" is correct.

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teleforce  2 days ago

>The discovery of "something akin to DNA fingerprinting that lets people discover ancestry" would be the type of major discovery that would completely upset our understanding of things.

It's already available, and ever heard about Mitochondrial Eve? [1]

But this narrative somehow does not fit the non-intelligent design believer thus is not made popular and well-known to the rest of the world.

What we have now is the illogical conjecture that human ancestry is originated from monkey while Darwin himself did not condone it. His actual conjecture is that man and monkey probably has the same ancestry.

Ironically it's reported in one of the major holy books that some people were turned into monkey because of working during their God's assigned holidays (read holy days) thus braking their covenant and got transformed into monkey [2].

[1] Mitochondrial Eve:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitochondrial_Eve

[2] The Jews breach the Sanctity of the Sabbath:

https://quran.com/al-baqarah/65/tafsirs

  • bean_canister  19 hours ago

    The concept of Mitochondrial eve IS still based on DNA, it's not a separate method of determining ancestry...

    How is mitochondrial eve disproving evolution or pointing towards intelligent design?

    Nobody thinks man evolved from monkey, that is a straw man.

    Monkeys and humans are physiologically similar, it's not surprising at all that a culture would develop mythology involving man -> monkey transformations. And I'm sure that exists outside of abrahamic mythology as well

profsummergig  2 days ago

"major discovery that would completely upset our understanding of things"

- such things happen regularly.

'"there is no imaginable technology that could do this" is correct.'

- i'm so glad i don't have this mindset.