Hi CTD

So where's the math which demonstrates this?

It’s all in that post. We are diploid species, that’s an observation, two DNA strands in parallel one from our fathers and one from our mothers form each of our chromosomes. Each DNA strand carries just one Allele at any given locus, that’s simple logic and observation. DNA is like a sting of beads, you can’t have two beads in the same place on the string. A Locus is a point on a DNA strand and the code there is sometimes called a gene. We observe that the strands must line up precisely meaning that the positions are fixed or the strand from our mother would not work with the strand from our father. So given that locations on strands are strictly fixed and that we each carry just two strands each individual carries often just one or at most two Allele’s for any locus. Adam and Eve were two people (Well that’s what the bible says at least) meaning that between them they could carry at most four alleles.

Here’s the maths, 2 (number of people in the population, Adam and Eve) times 2 number of Allele’s at any given locus that a human can carry thus the maths is this. Calculators at the ready.

2x2=4

So for humans, if genesis is true and evolution is not inventive, there can be at most 4 different alleles at any locus in our entire population. We obseve that this is not the case by the way with some Loci having over 50 Allele’s.

Now for the ark it is claimed that there were seven of some kinds so the sum becomes simply this. Seven individuals times two allele’s per loci (which is the max).

7x2=14

So for any given kind there could be at most 14 allele’s for any locus carried by the individuals on the ark. Again this is not what we observe when we actually look at the DNA of the species around us.

What other maths do you want?
Do you need to borrow my calculator?

In Reason

Russell