well hi everyone I Ken Ham here from Answers in Genesis along with dr. Nathaniel Jenson and dr. Jensen has a PhD in biology from Harvard University and he's been doing a lot of research on genetics and human populations we've been doing this series it says number six actually in the series it's a serial in the new history of the human race and we're much more closely related than we think and dr. nathaniel jensen is rewriting human history now interesting thing is he's not rewriting the Bible he's rewriting secular history and giving us a whole different look at history it's actually fascinating he actually is able to look at genetics and you can actually there work out some time and look at signatures that actually reflect certain events in history and actually it shows the evolutionary history is just wrong just playing straight wrong and what he's finding he actually confirms what the Bible has said all along so we just did episode 5 and episode 5 was about mitochondrial DNA and looking at signatures in the mitochondrial DNA that actually point back to three groups that correspond we would say to the words of him Sharon and Japheth and episode six The Smoking Gun of human history so dr. Nathaniel Jensen take it away as you talked about the Y chromosome the male and you've got a fascinating insight here in regard to a signature for an event in history that the Bible talks about and that we actually exhibited Northern Kentucky is that right yes we're gonna look at another echo of the flood this time looking at the the male DNA and we're gonna take it a step further last time we look at the the female inherited DNA and saw that we could get a big picture confirmation of 6,000 years of history we can see the hint of the flood and we we stopped short of being able to dig into the details of host bable history because of certain technical problems we have mitochondrial DNA we want to take that a step further this time and a smoking gun that basically blows all evolutionary objections to what we're discussing out of the water and now and then sets the path forward for digging deeply into who we came from who we are and it's gonna set the path for all our discussions going forward and this week just like yesterday I should say today just like yesterday we're gonna see once again it gets a little bit technical but this is gonna be as technical as it gets everything going forward from here is gonna be basically look who these people are look at the dates of when they split and we're gonna avoid all the technical complex genetics but this is foundational for everything we're gonna stay going forward and it it really is the key to engaging the evolutionary side I know Michael might just add dr. Jensen that if somebody doesn't understand the genetics and it's it's really not that super technical but that doesn't matter just look at the big picture of what you're saying because you'll get it you'll understand it exactly and even if we go into the weeds a little bit we'll always come back up for error so if you didn't understand every single point you'll still get the big picture okay yes I see where this is going and you'll know exactly what you need to know going forward to understand the the big questions that we're getting out of of who we came from who we are how living people are connected how we connect back to the ancient civilizations that Greeks the Romans the Assyrians all these sorts of people to understand whether or not some of us sitting in America have links going back to the ancient times into ancient civilizations that we've learned about but perhaps never became personal and I've learned in doing this research just in the last few years that what I've taken for granted is is wrong and even the things you learn in standard history class are not what we think they are because most history is taught from a political perspective and the only way you can teach it from a people's perspective is with genetics and we haven't had those tools until recently and as we saw in our last episode those tools we do have are dominated by mainstream science and they're missing the key to human history which is the 6,000 year timescale they do not want that to be true they refused to examine our genetic history through that lens and so they're missing mass of what's going on and just to recap very briefly what we've seen in the previous episodes we've looked at human population history seeing that going back just a few hundred years there's 20 times fewer people alive back then than are alive today and so this forces us when we're looking for spouses to to look beyond our own group or to look to people who are closer relatives and we might be comfortable with today so this this affects how closely or distantly related we are we've seen that our family trees are much more connected than we think we reach that conclusion by going backwards through our each of our family trees and seeing that every generation the number of ancestors multiplies I come from two parents who they each come from two parents and two four eight sixteen thirty-two it multiplies very quickly and so go back just to eight hundred a thousand years and theoretically we have two billion ancestors that can't possibly be true because there weren't that many people alive so our family trees must connect our parents must be more related to each other than we think and maybe are comfortable with if you apply that globally you see that racial so-called racial or ethnic change must happen more quickly than we think we looked at the genetics behind this and so how easy this is we've seen that if you apply that with just slight differences in reproductive rates over a few hundred years you can get massive ethnic change it's theoretically possible that most of Europe has recent African ancestry even though they look Caucasian and the only way we can know whether or not that's true is to look at the genetics we saw last time with mitochondrial DNA that our family tree is much more shadow than we think even if you've watched this and you're saying I'm a young earth creationist I've believed for a long time that the earth is only 6,000 years old once you translate that to the number of human generations which is 200 or less suddenly it starts to hit you okay there's eight billion people we have to reduce that back to eight there's eight billion branches and our family tree close to it now to reduce that back to eight in just 200 steps Wow you have to start connecting branches very quickly what we're gonna see this time is the smoking gun of human history and again because it it can tend toward something technical I'm gonna review what we've covered because the y-chromosome has many points that parallel the mitochondrial DNA so we're just gonna basically see that there's many similar points to last time but with a few different nouns and instead of maternal history it'll be cut turtle history and instead we're looking through mom's line we're gonna look through dad's line and once again the problem we're trying to solve the scientific problem we're trying to solve is why don't these popular genetic tests tell you more about your own history we've seen that the problem they run into it comes from biology if you're like me and most of your family tree is Caucasians and you wonder if you have perhaps a dark-skinned ancestor or if the roles are reversed you're someone perhaps of African American or African descent and most of your family tree is dark-skinned peoples and you want to know if you have a light-skinned ancestor you you run into the same mathematical biological problem that ancestor in theory is going to be 100% that ethnicity in this case in this diagram 100% African but if he marries a light-skinned individual their children at most are going to be 50 percent African at the genetic level the next generation 25% then 12 12 and a half percent than six and quarter percent that number drops by half every generation and we discussed the fact that below 10 percent if you if you take the hundred-dollar test from one of these popular companies below 10 percent is probably not reliable for technical reasons that we discuss briefly so what can we do to go back beyond four or five generations to two deeper history so in a in a short diagram the the problem can be encapsulated like this you've got these two broad bands two streams of genetic information coming from each parent that have to be reduced into you and me and and that's the problem the reduction of genetic information each generation we saw that from mitochondrial DNA there is a biological a cell biology basis for looking elsewhere we saw that let's say this is an egg cell there's two places where you can find DNA that large sphere in the middle is the nucleus those smaller oval compartments the four of them shown there are the mitochondria they also have DNA both the sphere and the mitochondria the nucleus in the mitochondria have DNA the sperm also has two repositories of DNA the more common and well known one is the purple the nucleus but it also has mitochondria shown there those that's spiral shaped goldish structure when sperm and egg meet most of what we talk about 99% of our DNA is the nuclear DNA the severe in the egg and then that purple nucleus in the sperm when spirit when sperm enters egg it's not the entire sperm structure it's just the head that has the nucleus and so most people and and the majority of the information you're getting from one base hundred-dollar commercial genetic tests deals with this type of DNA the problem is that signal gets diluted well the mitochondrial DNA comes from mom only and then we said we saw that the reason for this at a biological level at the level of fertilization is because again only the sperm head enters the tail that has the mitochondria does not and this represents less than 1% of our DNA so we saw that this solves this by parental dilution problem it only comes through mom just the stream through mom so you don't have the dad diluting the signal every generation so that is one way to sell this problem and we saw that it's not necessarily 100 percent identical transmission every generation what happens every so often is that as mom copies that mitochondrial DNA the egg is inheriting this mitochondrial DNA the the copying process is imperfect we live in a fallen world the curse has happened the perfect creation God intended has been corrupted by sin and by the curse and so mistakes happen and one of the indirect benefits of this for our purposes and for studying history is that because the process of transmission is imperfect we do not all have identical mitochondrial DNA there are differences and those differences act like a clock and so that the more differences that exist between any two people the deeper in history you have to go to find the common ancestor the fewer the differences between any two people the more shallow the more recent their connection so you can use this fact to reconstruct a family tree of the globe and we saw that taking all this information together these genetic studies indicate mitochondrial Eve lived just 6000 years ago and again if you convert this to the number of generations 6000 years the number of generations we walk work through the math last time and found this is just less than 200 generations ago just a few short steps the problem we said though to drill down into more detail to more precision we get the big picture with this but to go precise the the ticking of the clock is still very slow even by young earth standards it's once every five to ten generations that means once every several hundred years so that's not very great resolution if you're looking at details of history especially if you want to know something within the last 200 years you really can't see it plus there's statistical noise that's a technical point the main conclusion is we're stuck then we know that mitochondrial DNA indicates a 6,000 year history but if we want to get at the specific details beyond yes there's creation yes there's flood and and maybe there's a babel event we can't get much further well where else can we look let's go back to the cell biology of fertilization and look at it a different angle so we saw that with mitochondrial DNA it's it's inherited only through one parent because of what happens to the sperm cell it does not pass on its mitochondrial DNA as best as we know because the the structure in which the mitochondrial DNA exists stays outside the egg well what we're going to look at now is something that happens in the nucleus and it's a it's a detail of the inheritance of the nuclear DNA that leads to male only inherited DNA what am I talking about well let's dig deeper now into what would exist in the sphere of the egg in the in the purple nucleus of this of the sperm if you were to crack open a cell in your body or if you were able to watch with a microscopic camera what is occurring in the nuclei of these two cells after they fuse you were to open up and look at the DNA sort of as a as a magnified microscopic but still big picture view of the DNA you'd find something like this these are chromosomes is that this is an actual image of human DNA so there's six billion letters of DNA that exists in our cells and here they are it's again sort of that at a cellular level sort of zoomed out because you don't actually see six billion letters literally but you see them broken up into chunks they look kind of like wet noodles and those wet noodles are what we call chromosomes and you'll notice that for every certain sized chromosome there's a there's a matching pair so over here you have a relatively speaking long wet noodle or chromosome it's matched up to a fairly similar sized one here if you go down to the bottom of the screen there's a short chromosome on the left its matched up to a short chromosome on the right and the reason they exist in these pairs is because one member of each pair comes from mom showing here in magenta and the other one comes from dad shown here in blue so that's the cell biology basis for why our DNA comes from both parents and how its set up well why am i bringing this up you'll notice that there's one pair down the lower right of the screen that I've not added a two columns 2 and you'll notice if we zoom in here its mismatched the other chromosomes are numbered 1 through 23 there's 23 pairs are actually 1 through 22 this is the 23rd pair and they're just given those numbers those are called autosomes what we're looking at here are the sex chromosomes because they determine gender females are xx they have an X chromosome that's matched up with a similar sized one males are XY the Y chromosome is much shorter here than the excrement then the X chromosome and it looks like a mismatch this is what determines maleness this is what you see if you were to crack open cells in my body and the bodies of my sons and this different sin is what makes the Y chromosome unique to males so instead of both males and females having mitochondrial DNA but sperm kind of leaving it out in this case only males have Y chromosomes females do not have it and so if you look at this family tree my Y chromosome comes only through the paternal line because only dads habit only dads pass it on this now to summarize everything we've just discussed gives us yet another tool by which to dig deeper in history and the reason is females do not dilute the signal the way they do not dilute it is they just don't have a Y chromosome they can't add a second one to dilute the ethnic signal only dads pass it on and so it's a record of male history it happens to represent 1% of the male DNA it's about 60 million letters long so here's our first key takeaway and it parallels what we saw in our last episode for mitochondrial DNA here's the corresponding genetic compartment for men the Y chromosome comes through dads lineage and so this problem of diluting by half diluting by half diluting behalf doesn't exist for the y chromosome because the females aren't contributing and again this diagram shows you that my male DNA comes just through the the right side here it doesn't tell you about the rest of the family tree so there's some information and does not record but for our purposes we want it we want to get more time depth we want to go back deeper in history and this is what allows us to do it and just like from re chondral DNA if if the Y chromosome was passed on perfectly all the Y chromosomes of all the men around the globe would look identical they don't and the reason they don't is because once again we live in a fallen world in the same principle for mitochondrial DNA applies here that y chromosome when it's copied and sperm passed on a sperm happens imperfectly we're living in a cursed fallen creation there's mistakes that occur and so this is a more accurate representation of what's going on it gets passed on in perfectly the Y chromosome just like mitochondrial DNA acts like the clock there are ticks that occur and so just like for mitochondrial DNA you can compare Y chromosomes around the globe if me and some other man have very few Y chromosome differences between us that means we had a recent male ancestor if you compare me to let's say Ken Ham and we have many money excuse me many Y chromosome differences between us that means we had a male ancestor in the distant past so in that sense it acts like a clock so there's there's again these points are virtually identical to the mitochondrial DNA I'm just exchanging the word mitochondrial DNA from Y chromosome and against a record of the dads side instead of mom's side so if the Y chromosome acts like a clock perhaps we can take it back deep in history to the beginning and the principal again to apply what we discussed in episode 2 is the principle of how our family tree expand as I come from two parents who each come from two parents and and on back it goes keeps multiplying you basically divide these numbers by half for the male side the point is you can't go back indefinitely to the beginning where you keep multiplying the number of your ancestors it the numbers become too great to be realistic at some point you have to start connecting these branches on the family tree so this again applies to that not just the female side but also the male side and we discussed this in the context of going back a few hundred thousand years I'm saying now that this principle applies even if you go all the way back to the beginning the number of people alive in the globe keeps getting smaller and smaller the deeper you go into history which means you have to keep connecting these branches to one another until eventually you reach the beginning and so that beginning that first paternal ancestor is something we want to now explore and more depth the evolutionists call this guy the Y chromosome atom and once again just like the mitochondrial Eve sounds like wonder if she could be the biblical Eve the use of the term atom by the mainstream community temps many people to say could this be the biblical Adam and many old earth creationists have gone that direction now the same problems we saw for mitochondrial Eve applied to Y chromosome Adam here's a tree that we're gonna look at in more detail in in future episodes and I'm not gonna take the time to derive the problems with Y chromosome Adam this is the name of the paper from which it comes because the the principles the the applications are basically identical to the problems with mitochondrial Eve when you do when you reconstruct based on Y chromosome DNA a family tree for the globe the evolutionists say well the beginning of our family tree and so in this case once again the the family tree time moves from left to right instead of from top to bottom if we were to zoom in here you'd see that it was anchored and and if we if we look deeper in the evolutionary literature they anchor it based on where the chimpanzee branches off so their idea of where the beginning is where Adam is assumes he has common ancestry with apes again they the Africans branch off first so they say he lived in Africa not in the Middle East not near the Mount Ararat they also say that even though we go back to one man one Y chromosome Adam he was part of a larger population of humans they deny the existence of a first pair they always say it's a population they explicitly reject the biblical account of God creating just two people in the beginning for the ancestors of all of us and of course they stretch out this family tree over 200,000 years dr. Jensen let me just summarize here a little bit isn't it going on so yeah getting confused or anything but and tell me if I have it right okay yeah so number one when people say how could you get all the world's population just from eight people on the flood and then going back to just two people from Adam and Eve population dynamics when you look at what happens I mean population growth happens very quickly and exponentially and you can easily account for that that's double you establish that early on in the series and so what you're saying is if you work backwards obviously you know what that really means is you can't having had more and more people a you know it wouldn't wouldn't fit with you know the number of population we have today and in the timescales it just doesn't fit so therefore you have to be in the past more closely related than what we think and so smaller populations so people are much more closely related and so all those changes that we've seen happen for distinguishing groups around the globe have happened very very quickly not not slowly and then yes using mitochondrial Eve using mitochondrial DNA what you're showing is when you look at mutations and use that as a clock the further back you go you realize with the number of mutations today I mean you get less and less and it points to about 6,000 years ago for the beginning of the human race it doesn't point to hundreds of thousands of years ago and then the same now with the Y chromosome and it's pointing to the same sort of thing and yeah even even more than that you were able to in the mitochondrial DNA look at three groupings to start with a correspondent to shem ham and japheth wives and now you're going to be using the y chromosome to point to a signature and the history as well so have i got that right so far summarized it okay exactly yes yes exactly so all those are true and we're trying to derive if if we can drill down now as the next step in light of all that can we drill down and look at the details of post flood post babble human history can we see the echo of that and we've seen that if we just apply the concept that y-chromosome comes through dad it acts like a clock but then without any consideration from what the mainstream community is saying we say Oh Y chromosome Adam that they talk about must be the biblical one we say that that can't possibly be true let's look for the biblical lens and I want to focus specifically here now eye on what they say about the time scale because this is something we can test scientifically in our last episode we said the mitochondrial time scale is not derived directly from genetics they take it from evolutionary geology apply it directly and and stretch the the family tree of humanity over that time scale and assume that it must be 200 thousand years they do the same thing for the Y chromosome family tree they say here's all these differences we know from geology archaeology it must take a long time so we're gonna stretch out this whole tree planted in Africa assume common ancestry that's how they do it well the way you test whether or not this matches up with reality in a scientific sense is you get fathers and sons and you directly count how many mistakes are made every generation and this story is even more wild than the story we examined for mitochondrial DNA truth is stranger than fiction again the principle is there's mistakes that occur well what every generation every few generations no one knows until you directly measure it by getting dad's Y chromosome sons Y chromosome grandpa's Y chromosome grandsons Y chromosome so the story and the way this is played out for the Y chromosome these sorts of studies were performed beginning in 2009 there was an initial study in 2009 then another one in 2015 they were based on low quality data low quality DNA but the results that they concluded the rate of errors the rate of mutations that they empirically discovered was slow and it fit their expectations for 200,000 years and what I initially saw these papers I wasn't quite sure what to do with them well you wait and two subsequent studies were done all the one in 2015 one in 2017 based on high-quality DNA and what they discovered and what they did with it is again stuff you can't make up it's the same paper that I showed earlier dealing with and showing the global family tree of humanity their global family tree humanity has I think accurate branches but what they included as part of their study was a set of father-son pairs as a check on their work to make sure what they were doing was accurate and if you look at the main text of the paper they say we found a rate that's consistent evolution if you look at the Supplemental information where they actually tell you the details of how they arrived at that conclusion it gets to really watch out so here's a direct quote from their paper they said again looking at these father-son comparisons where they were trying to check their experiments make sure they were working they said the number of father-son y-chromosome differences mutations was approximately tenfold higher than the expected number considering the range of published Y chromosome mutation or copying mistake rates and if you look at what they were referring to about the published rates they're talking about the previous low quality attempts that gave lot of results consist of evolution in other words they said we discovered something unexpected when we used high-quality DNA we discovered a rate that was much higher than what evolution predicts and here's what I've highlighted in red this finding prompted us to explore additional filters what they literally did was filter out data that contradicted the expectations of evolution they took their high quality DNA that gave results that I'll show you in a minute we're consistent with the Bible they said even though this is high quality DNA it's better data it doesn't fit evolution therefore we've got to filter out stuff that doesn't fit you can't make this stuff up these are smart people but they're bound by the framework of evolution and the bottom line is both of these subsequent studies fit exactly the biblical expectations and I showed here 4,500 years ago so dr. Jain said hey look how often does that happen with a lot of other research that's being done my impression when you're dealing with science in which the worldview component is minor when we're dealing with questions of the present does this particular drug cure cancer or here's a very relevant one does this particular drug cure the corona virus these are questions of the present that don't really require you to make some statement about the past and so by and large those sorts of results are done rationally they're done with an eye to the data they're done rigorously to say does the data fit expectations does it actually cure patients should we give them true hope is it false hope that's sort of did that sort of discussion tends to be reliable of course if it's coming out of communist China where we already have evidence that things are being suppressed another story I'm talking about Western science however any time you touch on the question of origins what you see time and time again is the conclusions must match the evolutionary framework for some reason all this sort of rationality gets thrown to the curb and the data is forced to conform and and fit the preconceived notions again you you can't make this up you say and and I've worked with people here I I know personally evolutionists and I know they're smart people and you say why are you doing this what this is obviously not something that's rational why are you forcing the better data to fit the bad data solely for the purpose of confirming evolution and this what we know as Christians why this is occurring but again I you can't make this up this is literally what you can find documented in their own papers it's it's an irrational prejudice because of the heart of may and that's what it comes down to yeah you can't ignore the spiritual state of things so when you say 4,500 years ago here I mean that's about the time of the flood isn't it exactly and so if we if we say okay we've now got this father son raped what should we expect but in light of the Bible well we're thinking about male inheritance and the Bible is explicit and clear on what the male state was at the time of the flood Noah has three boys and again that the key verse here is Genesis chapter 9 Shem ham and Japheth and from these the whole earth was populated so there's not some other group that survived outside the flood you can you can look back in the early 1800s and will this just this more in subsequent episodes where they're talking about well maybe there was a local flood and maybe the Native Americans came from some people who survived the flood there are people who who call themselves creationists back then and are invoking these sorts of hypothesis Genesis 9 says sorry that doesn't work everyone was destroyed the world was wicked from only these three the earth was repopulated and so then thinking about this from a biological y-chromosome perspective these guys are males they have y chromosomes who do they get their Y chromosomes from well it's male in here did they get it from Noah and so we the the men alive today all have traced their ancestry back to one man Noah and we wouldn't necessarily expect the exact same structure in the Y chromosome that we would for mitochondrial DNA we've got mitochondrial DNA through the three wives and those three wives are not necessarily sisters they might have several differences between them well these three boys are brothers and so their Y chromosome coming directly from Noah is gonna be very similar to it and it may actually be kind of hard to find a three-prong structure it depends on how fast or slow Y chromosome changes occur it so happens that the the Y chromosome rate of copying errors of mutations that we can see today is about two or so every generation so there might be a structure a structure in the Y chromosome tree that shows the beginning point and then three very tiny branches coming out from it there is still some statistical noise in the Y chromosome so I can't say yet with certainty whether or not there's such a three-prong structure but there is clearly a beginning and the more immediate application is from a biblical perspective it's more appropriate to talk about the Y chromosome Noah not the Y chromosome Adam because unlike the three ladies who might not have a common ancestor back to Eve we know these two boys most recent common ancestor is Noah and you really can't go back beyond Noah unless you have some sort of DNA from the pre-flood people which I don't think we do and the bottom lining and the key takeaway here is just like for mitochondrial DNA the Y chromosome Noah the most recent common ancestor lived just 4,500 years ago and in fact you can be fairly precise with this 45 years instead of 6,000 years it fits very well and another practical takeaway from this is that our male ancestry goes back if it's 4,500 years less than 200 generations ago four billion men collapsed back to four and then back to Noah in less than 200 generations so all those branches of our family tree must collapse that quickly now I still haven't gotten to the smoking gun of human history and let me set it up this way so once the and our family tree is shorter more shallow than we think we've discussed some of the limitations of mitochondrial DNA that mtDNA abbreviation there it doesn't take very fast even from Emmett's perspective there's a lot of statistical noise over the Y chromosome the clock ticks every single generation so in theory I can walk back through every single one of those 200 or less generations to the beginning I can see every generation of history in this Y chromosome family tree that is remarkable and what's even better is there is low statistical noise so I get my Y chromosome sequence I compared to Ken hams we find that let's say we had a common ancestor common male ancestor in the year 1000 AD we can be fairly certain it's right around there it might be 900 to 1100 AD but we can be pretty precise with this sort of data which means we can make some very specific inclusions and inferences from the history of humanity from this Y chromosome now what's the smoking gun I'm gonna derive it in three steps using something that most people probably haven't thought about but if you think about it briefly it's fairly self-evident so let me derive the first step this way let's think of a theoretical family tree and let's think of males let's say there's a dad or a grandfather who marries and he has two boys here's his family tree and let's say we've got someone who has developed the ability to live over many generations and can watch this whole sequence of events in real time and write down okay there was one dad and then he had two boys and he you know they grew up and they each have two boys and he's writing down okay every generation now there's four people in this generation and they grew up and have two boys now there's now there's eight and then there's 16 and there and and on and on you go he documents historically the number of people the number of boys at every generation you could then graph that out what I want to show you though is if you looked simply at their family tree which I've shown here and you count the number of branches at each generation there's one branch at this generation and then here there's two branches then you go next generation there's four branches you also get the sense for how many people are alive how many men are alive at each generation and you might say well that's kind of a kindergarten points you know if I graph out my own family tree it's me and then the three branches coming out for me well it is a kindergarten point but it's a profound point the branches of a family tree reflects population size well I've given a little local example this applies around the globe if we were to create the family tree of the globe the number of branches at any particular point in that family tree should reflect the global population size here what I've shown is population doubling if some other scenario played out let's say there was a dad who had just one son maybe a bunch of daughters just one boy and then another son and and for several generations there's only one son who's born and then eventually that published and starts doubling again this this dad has two sons and his boys grew up in each have two sons and on it goes again the number of branches in the family tree would reflect the male population size would be flat for a while because there's no population growth and then it starts shooting up so this kindergarten point is profound the number of branches in a family tree records changes in population size what we've said that the fact that DNA mistakes occur and we've just observed that if they occur every generation in the white chromosome means we can reconstruct a global family tree for Humanity and we'll dig into this more and in subsequent episodes so DNA is a record of the global family tree so let's take these two points and combine them DNA is a record of the global family tree but family trees global family trees record changes in global population sizes therefore the global family tree is a record of the global change in population size so we're almost there - The Smoking Gun here's why I'm calling a smoking gun you might recall from episode 1 a graph like this which shows the hockey stick shape of human population growth this is a little ironic because that hockey stick shape of course is a subject of intense controversy when it comes to climate change and global warming so the fact that human population history also has a hockey stick shape should be something the mainstream scientists do not deny and in fact they agree on this young earth creationists and evolutionists agree that from about a thousand BC onward to the present there's little disagreement about what this is it's inferred from archaeology it's an hour-- inferred from historical records like the censuses of the the Chinese and empires of the Roman empires and so forth now I'm gonna redraw this because this is now a way to test whether or not the human family tree is a record of long period of time or of a short period of time think about it 3,000 years from a thousand BC until now represents the vast majority of post-flood history three thousand years is a big chunk of 4,500 from the evolutionary perspective the last 3,000 years represents just a tiny fraction of the hundreds of thousands of years of human history so they don't even bother really looking for this in the Y chromosome because it's gonna be virtually undetectable just at the very tip they think at the of the human family tree well this sort of history should be stamped all throughout the Y chromosome tree if indeed it is young so let me let me redraw this so that we can see that the smoking gun with our own eyes I've drawn two dotted lines now because inferring past population size from archeology and written records it has some estimation involved and so there's a range of estimates and those dotted lines give you the range of estimates for the global population size and I've stopped it around 1,800 issue or so and so you can see I've also depicted in terms of male so there's 100 million males in maybe run 300 ad I've put that BC years in terms of negative numbers you can see BC ad you can see about around 1800 ad if you go up here there's maybe 400 million men alive this is now the inference from archeology and from written history well let's go to the global human family tree I'm taking the tree from the evolutionary literature but I'm putting a different starting point on it and we can actually test a variety of different starting points the point is I'm not assuming we have a common ancestor the chimpanzee what happens and if you just count the number of branches at any particular point in history what does the y-chromosome history look like so I'm gonna I'm gonna use the same x-axis the same time scale here from 2700 BC up to the basic about 1800 and this is the y-axis then for the y chromosome the number of branches well what if you superimpose these two you get a hockey stick shape this should not be true if our global human family tree is hundreds of thousands of years old how are the evolutionists going to explain this this is a smoking gun it's a really remarkable discovery because of the history of the creation/evolution debate for many years creationists have spent time and and valid useful time pointing out the flaws in evolution this completely turns the tables because it's not saying here's the problem with evolution it's turning around and saying look we've made a prediction a scientific prediction and boom here's the smoking gun we see the hockey stick shaped stamped all throughout the global family tree this shouldn't be here if the world is hundreds of thousands of years old it should be here if it's just a few thousand years old if we go back to Noah just 4,500 years ago this is exactly what you would find this is a positive evidence for creation and it puts the evolutionists on the defensive and what we are seeing and we'll see is roles reversed what's going to happen in the debate going forward is not so much creationists pointing out flaws in evolution creationists amount of driver's seat saying we're doing science we can and we're gonna do science more and more throughout the subsequent episodes looking at what this means for you in history we're gonna see this reflected here in the global level and also at local regional levels the evolutionists are gonna have to then start trying to nitpick and find flaws in creation because it's working so well this is a remarkable discovery this is the smoking gun and I've published this now these are papers that just came out in December you can see that smoking gun there so this again this is information you will find only here with us this is new research and the global Y chromosome tree is the key to human history and I'm not a poet but if you want some sort of rhyming way the global human the global Y chromosome tree is the key to human history that is the phrase we will apply over and over again in subsequent episodes and we're gonna see all that we've discussed played out here that that it's more shallow than we think we're gonna see these these crazy theoretical calculations about taking over a country played out in this y-chromosome family tree we're gonna see ethnic changes that we think couldn't possibly happen but are genetically plausible and in a ways we didn't think post Babel didn't expect we're going to see how many connections exist and again the smoking on we've just seen is a reflection of the history of human population growth so this is just the beginning now you know while we're gonna focus on the y-chromosome family tree there will be at some point if you've done a genetic test and you maybe have done your Y chromosome and they've told you you as part of this group of that group we might be able to tell you and and give some inferences into what that history means again you're not going to get this through a commercial genetic testing company this is only through us this is the new history of the human race and we've just begun this so dr. Jensen that typer again just refer people that if you could share that again yeah up on the screen answers research journal is free and it's a technical research journal and it actually is edited by dr. Andrew Snelling and of course peer-reviewed and you can see here answers research journal number twelve evidence for a human Y chromosome molecular clock you can read the paper that dr. Jensen has published there so you can just do a search on on the internet for answers researcher or go to our website Answers in Genesis org and you can go through to the answers research journal from there you'll see it in the menus there you can search for it but that is a free journal and lots and lots of research papers in there by the way that I encourage people to read now this is part six so part seven and eight we're going to have a little break over Easter because we have other programs we're doing so we have a special Easter program people go to our website they see that we have some special programs on Good Friday Friday Sunday Sunday even a special program for kids by Brian Osborne on the Saturday I believe and I'll have very comfort do a devotion and we'll be doing some other things over Easter then after Easter the following weekend it'll be part seven and eight what are we going to be looking at a part seven and eight part seven we'll be looking at the lost relatives of Europe so it'll be our first step we're gonna we're gonna walk through slowly and carefully this y-chromosome family tree that is again just a few thousand years old you can in theory give us information of every generation we're gonna begin at one section that has blown my mind and and really challenged me for some time but it's got some crazy vacations for who Europeans are related to in the recent past I won't give it away yet who it is the off to tune in and then we'll also and then in the following episode apply some of that a little bit further and what I'm currently titling it is how many Europeans are of Mongol descent and don't know it so these are the these are the beginnings of what we're gonna do now looking at history of Europe wow that is that was really fascinating now people want to go through and relook at or if they're having to seen them the first six episodes now they can go to answers YouTube channel and there's a playlist there on the answers YouTube channel and that playlist will have them all there then you can go through and maybe you have seen them go through and look at them all again because there's so much information in these and so much that just challenges our thinking so we're really looking forward to that dr. Jensen so we'll see you back here on the weekend after Easter for part 7 and parts 8 where you're rewriting human history and rewriting it using real science genetics but showing that it confirms when you use observational science real science and use a properly actually confirms biblical history and actually shows up some of those events in history like the wives own of Noah sons and the fun of Noah's day and going back to Noah that's just absolutely fascinating so we'll see you again for part 7 in part 8
