Do you believe that all mankind originated in Africa?

Question:Scientists have said that DNA proves that all humans came from Africa. What do you believe?

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Scientists have said that DNA proves that all humans came from Africa. What do you believe?

Yes, I do. You can learn more about this at www.nationalgeographic.com click on the link to the Human Genome Project.

It is really fascinating.

YES

Yes, I do.

They also believe that the planet and everything in it originated from nothing. I try to take it all with a pinch of salt. I still remember reading about how they thought the world was flat. We are all related to bananas too apparently. Nothing they say surprises me anymore. lol :-)

It's pretty hard to argue with the DNA studies, but only time will tell. The statistical samples are still too small to provide unequivical proof of this.

if you believe that your crazy Sorry

I believe that certain scientists are willing to believe it, just as MOST scientists once believed we all descended from Neanderthal man. Then they figured out Neanderthal man wasn't even our ancestor, and wasn't even in the realm of human.

In our lifetimes, I don't think the real truth will ever be known. So far in my lifetime, we've been taught that everyone descends from the Indian sub-continent, Persia, Germany, Switzerland, and now Africa. I'm not willing to accept any new theories without better proof than DNA...a science that is, at best, very new and constantly evolving. There's not enough of a universe of samples to prove the theory, nor will there be until there is better science available. At this point, all of it falls under the heading of "scientific theory" and none of it rises to the level of "scientific law".

The more I hear from "scientists", the less I'm likely to take the bait. I'd rather cling to the Bible or aliens dropping to the face of the earth at the rate science is going. Call me skeptical, but the truth is that scientists are supposed to be skeptics, and we're not seeing much of that in the last 30 years.

Yes. To learn more about this subject I would suggest reading the Seven Daughters of Eve by Bryan Sykes.

i don't believe it but wait in ancient times wasn't the whole world ONE continent ? I'm not sure!

It had to happen somewhere. Why not Africa?

I wonder why some people (especially non-scientists) quickly say it's impossible. There response must have something to do with the culture we live in.

I actually believe it happened in multiple places at approximately the same time. Time being a very relative thing when you're talking about hundreds of thousands of years.

Nope. Just another case of Scientists messing with our minds.

They say the earth goes around the sun, too, but you can see it doesn't. The sun rises in the east, sets in the west. Always has, always will. If we were hurtling around the sun at 66,626 miles an hour, wouldn't you feel it? I would.

Check the math:

((93,000,000 * 2 pi) / 365.25) / 24 = 66,626

93 million miles = distance to sun, radius of circle

93,000,000 * 2 pi = 584,040,000 mile circumference,
or number of miles traveled in a year.

584,040,000 miles per year / 365.25 = 1,599,014 miles a day

1,599,014 miles a day / 24 = 66,626 miles an hour.

The "orbit" is supposed to be an ellipse, not a circle, so the numbers are approximate. Fat chance!

"scientists have said" is a totally different statement from "scientists have proven".
Science (and genetic theories) is based in things that constantly evolve, depending on newly discovered evidence.
I don't believe it or disbelieve it. Opinion wise, I think it is more likely that humanity "originated" in more than one place.
There are things that are provable, things that are NOT provable, and things that are in between. Most of my energy goes into that which is provable. But, that does not mean I dispute the theories that are coming out. I just try to keep an open mind.