I understand basically what these 2 people were to us, but I can’t wrap my head around *how* we all descend from them.
Did Adam have a few kids, who went out and had a few kids with other DNA groups, who had a few kids with other DNA groups, etc etc, and something happened so only his lineage survived ?
How did 2 people, 90,000 years apart, pass their DNA to every single person alive ?
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Evolution is directly contradictory to the concept of Adam and Eve. So your premise cannot be answered within the confines of biology.
Imagine you have a garden you started with one plant. The plant grows and spreads throughout your garden.
Your neighbor Tim likes your plants so you give him some seeds from your plants, and he starts a garden.
Then all your neighborhood takes seeds from Tim and starts gardens with them.
Your plant garden is the mitochondrial ancestor of every one of these gardens.
Suddenly, your entire garden dies. Now your garden is not part of the living group anymore. Therefore, Tim’s garden is now the mitochondrial ancestor of every living garden, because it’s the most recent common ancestor of all of them.
Now imagine someone takes seeds from those neighbors and spreads them to Portland, Chicago, and Antwerp. All those new gardens still have Tim’s as an ancestor.
Imagine this goes on for centuries, with new gardens popping up and old gardens dying off. Every living garden can trace itself back to one most recent common ancestor.
It’s a similar concept except Adam and Eve are tracing back through either patri-lineage or matri-lineage. It’s not that they were particularly successful, they just happen to be the one most recent common ancestor to everyone alive. They’re not the same person and didn’t live at the same time because of the continued change resulting from family trees dying off.
90,000 years apart??? What bible u reading
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