Mysteries of the Ancient Pacific, Aboriginal Australia, and Early America (Part 16)

hi everyone Ken Ham here CEO of answered Genesis Chris museum in the I can counter with dr. Nathaniel Jenson he's in our research department at Answers in Genesis and one of our speakers and a writer author of the book replacing Darwin he's been doing an incredible amount of research on rewriting human history while not rewriting biblical history actually rewriting human history using research in genetics that shows very clearly a whole different approach to history that actually fits with what the Bible tells us confirms by the Bible's history and we've been talking a lot about language groups going back to almost 70 basic groups oh the Bible tells us in Genesis 10 about 70 basic groups there are 70 family groups that moved out from each other according to their languages a God gave at the Hara Bible but today episode 16 mysteries of the ancient Pacific the Aboriginal Australia and early America and I'm very interesting this being a one who comes from Australia what happened in Australia before the Europeans arrived well what is this dry story of the Australian Aboriginal people and dr. Jean said I'll be interested in what you got to say about this because I know there are some legends in Australia heard about these when I was a teenager they'd say there were people there before the Australian Aboriginal people but anyway I'll be just to see what you'd like to say what about pre-colonial history of the Pacific Islanders Papua New Guinea who are the first people to arrive in the Americas could all of these regions be linked through an ancient genealogical heritage okay so join dr. Jensen today as he helps us discover new clues to these dark eras of human history wow this sounds like better than what you'd see on the Discovery Channel so take it away for us today dr. Jensen it's gonna get crazy so I hope our viewers will stick with us let's begin the by putting this in context before we get to the crazy stuff we're discussing the larger question of who do we come from history books often talk about what do we come from what cultures and civilizations this is this is the question of people's in genealogy what's the relationship among living people today and among and between the ancient cultures and civilizations and peoples of those civilizations in us I used to think that they were far away and disconnected genetics has now brought them much closer than I ever expected and we're beginning to move in the direction of ancient history in today's episode tries to get at the early history earliest history and most obscure history of what a couple regions of our planet we've been focusing on the history of Native Americans that we've seen some shocking things in previous episodes today's Native Americans were not the first Americans they arrived from Central Asia in the ad era which includes from history from genetics from archeology from linguistics to try to tell some of their story we've seen some of that in previous episodes we want to find out who was here first to try to round out this narrative and understand the history of the continent which can and I now call home so today's Native Americans are the result of this process around these dates yet from archaeology we know that there was previous civilizations the Olmec civilization existed in central Mexico in Mexico at the earliest BC times they were followed by the Mayans who began in the BC erics and into the ad era episode 14 we talked about how the arrival of these new peoples may have been a causative factor and the disappearance of the central Mayan classic era civilization but what is the origin of these peoples who do they come from why did they arrive here what's their nard if it's gonna be very different from what we've all been taught Discovery Channel National Geographic in school these sorts of things they didn't arrive 15,000 years ago what is their story well episode 1 we've seen that the world is smaller than we think and this point is being emphasized over and over again is this base in human population history episode 2 we looked at just the math of human family trees our ancestors to reach the same conclusion and it's a good way to start this series because when we look at the y-chromosome tree which is the major focus of what we're doing now that the male inherited DNA there's wild stuff and it's gonna get even Wilder today we've seen that ethnic change so-called racial change happens much quicker than we think episode 3 if we combine that with slight differences in reproductive rates you can get some really crazy conclusions theoretical possibilities for example most Caucasians being a recent African descent in theory and you have to go to episode 4 to see how that works the the big bombshell as it relates to mainstream science was what we covered in episodes 5 & 6 what we see in these episodes not just 5 & 6 but all the ones that we're doing is information you can't find elsewhere the genetic information we're discussing is information you can't buy for a hundred dollars from Family Tree DNA from 23andme ancestry.com they can't tell you this because number one their DNA tests look at DNA that's inherited from both parents and so you can only go back for five generations which the research might my dad has done independent of genetics is is something we can reach so you might be paying hundred dollars for and not learn much more than you already know it's male only inherited or female only inherited DNA that's the key for technical reasons it's the Y chromosome the male inherited DNA that is where the business of this really lies and you can see episodes 5 & 6 for why that is and the basic principle is the more DNA differences in the Y chromosome that exists between us the more distant the relationship the fewer the DNA differences the closer the genealogical relationship well this has some shocking implications for the history of Europe their lost relatives and India and Central Asia that we never would have expected that's episode 7 we've seen the explanation potential explanation for this is the Mongol Empire and the aftermath of it episode 8 we've seen there's an ancient Chinese connection to modern Europe episode 9 despite China China being a historically isolated and insular Society there are connections thanks to the barbarians from the north that join Europe and in China we've looked at the history of Americans those who came over after Columbus and seen that there's a hidden history the ancestors of most Americans are not who you think they are they go back to Central Asia in the recent past of thousand ad and more recently we've seen a revolution in pre-columbian history this is this is really the beginning of the section on what happened before Columbus even mainstream archeology is dramatically rewriting this in a rapid way that's hard to keep up with that's episode 1112 we looked at the genetic evidence for a resettling event before Columbus this is what I've been referring to as the early ad era migration from Central Asia there's been a neglected history there's there's a an agreement between some of these Native American oral and written histories and this genetic discoveries which should prompt us to go and relook at these tantalizing clues or maybe a whole lot more history than people have granted credit to the to the Native American tribes we've looked at the synthesis between mainstream archaeology in these modern genetic discoveries to see some new explanations for population collapses civilization collapses in the Americas before Columbus last episode we looked at the ancient Native American connection to modern new Europe we can we can fill in some of the story of Native Americans in a way we never expected and this this has implications for our way understand relationships between Caucasians and Native Americans today and implications for racism and such to today we want to look at mysteries of the ancient Pacific in Australia and how they might relate to early America before the arrival of Columbus in the Americas Europeans thought that the world consisted of three continents this map from 1490 shows you just that well of course Columbus famously we would say discovers the Americas he didn't know that you didn't know he was arriving in the Americas he of course famously infamously called the natives Indians because he thought he had made it to India that's what he's looking for an alternative right route to get to that spice trade well it wasn't just the Americas that he to which he opened European eyes North and South America to new continents he also brought the existence of a whole new ocean to the attention of Europeans and a window to an entirely different and very dark darkest and mysterious chapter of human history the history of the Pacific this has long been a neglected part of human history in episode when we talk about the history of human population growth and how it's been much more localized than I've been led to believe because I think in terms of maps and political entities well if you look at where the people are even in a thousand BC there's only a few spots in the globe where there's heavy concentrations which is why and this finally answered a question for me why history books tend to focus only on certain parts the world what's where the people are notice though that Pacific Australia Papua New Guinea largely empty there's some right here but there aren't that many people there past for two thousand years it's still largely empty the the major low side of the world increased their populations India China Europe Central America but sub-saharan Africa largely empty thousand AD it's still largely empty and we've seen that the evidence from archeology that's rewriting how we think about population concentrations here so some of this will have to be revised and will continue to be revised as we go forward in mainstream archaeology but over here the Australian Aborigines proponent Guinea again there's there isn't that much shaded here in the map and it only becomes more shaded and this seems to be largely due to the arrival of Europeans and such my point here is it's it's been neglected and and was neglected in the thousand genomes project this is one of the first studies we looked at we observed that the populations this particular mainstream study sampled didn't cover much of the map it covered much of where the people are but notice that it neglects down here Southeast Asia at the point in Guinea Australia and the reason for that is because there just haven't been that many people there historically Europeans had this brought to their attention early again or Susy I should say late in history because they rival the Columbus the Spanish and the Portuguese were the first into the exploring we'll zoom in on this map momentarily what I want you to see is that for the Spanish that the Philippines are major locus and destination for their travels we're going to zoom in here now and see some of these dates 1500s 1600 1700 s this is when it finally enters the realm of european attention however many of us it doesn't enter European attention until one of the major land masses of the Pacific is discovered that landmass is missing from this eighty 1627 map the southern continent was brought to European attention larger to the work of Captain James Cook he was not the first Europeans arrived in Australia but he's the one responsible for putting it on our map and of course when he arrives he encounters people who look nothing like him the Australian Aborigines and it's not just Australia where Europeans encounter folks who look much different from them it's Papua New Guinea they look different and of course Polynesia Micronesia have a much more Asian look none of these people have European looks and to look at more modern examples again these people today look nothing like Europeans and if we didn't know any better we might look at some of these Polynesians and wonder if they didn't have an East Asian connection because the obvious physical similarities well why would he talk about any of this if our larger question is the question of the origin of the first peoples of the Americas well why would we talk about these sorts of peoples obviously there's a physical connection between some of the Polynesians and you can see obvious physical resemblances between Polynesians and today's Native Americans but as we've discovered in this series today's Native Americans are the product of a more recent migration and the under-12 made major population collapse East Asia didn't undergo such a major population collapse where maybe 90 percent of the people died out there was black death in Asia at some points but China is still over a billion people strong among the native of the Pacific there is evidence for population collapses there due to similar reasons new Europeans coming over perhaps inadvertently bringing diseases to which the natives were not resistant and so some of them died out as well and this has the consequence of obscuring some other history so what is the history of the Pacific in Papua New Guinea in Australia before the arrival of Europeans and might it reveal some connections to early America last episode we looked at three major disciplines of science to look for clues to a different question the history of those who arrived in the early ad era could we glean something from these same three fields well if we're talking written history that basically begins with the arrival of Europeans there's very little at this point that this reveals but as Ken mentioned there's legends stories from these indigenous groups we've seen in the Americas that there's some very intriguing parallels between these Native accounts and what we're discovering in genetics could there be something also presence in these accounts this is worthy of a reexamination but I'm gonna leave that historical discipline alone for the moment because at this point in time I can't tell you much more of the research that illumines what happened let's turn to linguistics instead because we'll find some clues that make this question and and the answers to it more obvious you might recall from the previous episode that there's at first pass a little bit of a discrepancy that appears seems to appear if you look at the number of languages language groups listed in Genesis 10 the number of languages today so we would say is creationist that there was one original language after the flood Genesis 11 describes why God broke up these people groups early people groups into different language groups it was because they rebelled against his command to spread out so he confused the languages in Genesis 10 gives us the basic family groupings yes it's a hundred times smaller than the number of languages today what we saw that if you look at languages today there's some very intriguing similarities differences in similarities among them German and English bears obvious linguistic similarities Spanish and Latin bears some similarities it almost begs people to classify them and apply some sort of historical relationships we saw that the language category of family seems to be a good first approximation for what these original languages were in other words you can take the language today look at their similarities and differences and group them to successfully smaller and more inclusive groupings and family is a academic category that exists in modern linguists and it's only there only twice as many language families as the number of families literal families listed in Genesis 10 and we've seen that a good chunk of this about half of these language families exist only in the Americas and we looked at reasons for why that might be reduced in the future even mainstream linguists are talking about how all the languages in the Americas might eventually be grouped in this single language family we just haven't done the deep dive analysis of this yet to reach that conclusion there's been one academic Greenberg who's done this but mainstream folks say the analysis wasn't rigorous rigorous enough yet they'll be they seem to be sympathetic towards the conclusion he's trying to reach well what can linguistics tell us about the history of the Pacific and of us Aboriginal Australian such again just to review that the basic principle notice Africa is a good simple example has just a handful of language families and orange the afro-asiatic family this includes Arabic and such you might if you know your history of the Muslim conquest say well that sounds a lot like Mohammed's conquests and those of his Muslim descendants yes and so that's that tells you linguists languages hold within them clues to history they echo human history Niger Congo is a major language family Africa that covers much of Central and and West Africa you have the click languages the Kois on we'll talk about some of this in the future these are sort of the rock stars of mainstream genetics they talk about here is that the the cradle of mankind and 200,000 years ago well we'll talk about that in the future notice though Madagascar the African Island doesn't have linguistic connections to mainland Africa it shares a color over here in Southeast Asia so let's zoom in on that because it now takes us the Pacific there are language connections there is a single language family Austronesian that connects madagascar indonesia malaysia the philippines and many of these pacific islands and there's sub groupings within it that scientists or I should say linguists have come up with here we've moved Madagascar artificially close so we can see this this grooves a sub grouping here that joins Madagascar and in each of the Philippines their sub groupings that join the Pacific Islands subgroupings here and here notice that they skirt kupuna Guinea avoid Australia and these linguistic groupings roughly fit the major divisions we looked at earlier Micronesia Polynesia are joins linguistically but they're separate from Melanesia by and large kupuna Guinea and Australia and they tend to roughly fit these physical different groupings Polynesians obviously have looked like this is a Maori girl from New Zealand and she has a more Asian look the Melanesians like the Papua New Guineans the Aboriginal Australians have much more I'd say an African look with darker skin and very tight curly hair these sort of language groupings and linguistic data have been combined with archaeology by mainstream scientists to come up with a model for the settling of the Pacific it's a very intriguing one now just as a general rule of thumb and we'll talk about this more in future episodes when we talk about archaeological dates pre 1000 BC dates we're gonna see eventually get corrected after a thousand BC there tends to be agreement between mainstream archaeology and what scripture says for example mainstream archeologists acknowledge the existence of King David around a thousand BC there's still differences I'm not saying there's a perfect identity but generally from a thousand BC forward you can probably trust the dates that they give before that there's other factors worldview factors that affected so I want to draw our attention first to these these red and purple arrows will talk about the blue momentarily due to linguistic and archaeological data linguistically mainstream folks would say the Austronesian languages began in Taiwan spread down through the Philippines then skirted the coasts of Papua New Guinea eventually spreading to these islands out here you can look at the first archaeological evidence for human settlement and so in short if we were to think of this and correct some of these dates mentally there is an early origin of the Austronesian languages in Taiwan they'd say they come down here early early in the BC era and the specific dates we'll talk about more in future episodes they've reached Samoa early BC era this is again nearly a thousand years before Christ but then it stops and the distant Pacific Islands even in mainstream science they would say are not settled until very late in history shortly before Europeans arrived Hawaii isn't settlements a lot 8900 Rapa Nui or Easter Island those large statues they are they aren't settled until 8900 New Zealand the Maya is not on until 80 1200 this was a shock to me I didn't think that these islands would have such a late history and would have been empty for so long but this is the the mainstream scientific view what I want to point out here is that the this migration there's an initial migration and then a subsequent migration the subsequent migration going to the distant far reaches of the Pacific doesn't happen until late in history and at post dates what I've argued from genetics was the resettling of the Americans so if we're thinking about potential connections between Pacific and the Americas even what I'm saying this this shock of a resettling predates what mainstream scientists would say is the eventual settling of the Pacific so my impression is that this this stage here within this triangle probably is not relevant to our understanding of the history of the Americas and of course the bigger question we're trying to get at is what are the earliest settlers of the Americas but that's not the only thing I want us to notice in this diagram there are blue arrows here pointing towards Papua New Guinean go down here into Australia you don't have dates on them and mainstream science the dates for the settling of Australia go back 60,000 years they would say and kapuna Guinea maybe 20,000 years my point is there's there's a very distant ancient history in mainstream scientists in mainstream science for the settling of these islands we're gonna correct these dates in the future I want I want you to see that is in the relative sense they say Australia Papua New Guinea settled first and the Austronesian language expansion happens later that's the point the Polynesians they would say our later arrivals the Pacific these groups are some of the earliest so that's just from looking at these Austronesian languages now I want us to notice from a linguistics perspective Papua New Guinea and Australia now today you'll notice this light green color which we also find here in South Africa Europe the Americas that's the indo-european family because there's so many Europeans others speaking English that's why you see this dominant green color here of course that's why you see green in the US English is the main language and green down here because Spanish and Portuguese also indo-european language is the dominant ones there however there's a salmon color in Australia and there's multiple colors up here in Papua New Guinea the pupu in languages so they're not Austronesian languages are different in fact it's a mistake to color this just one red color in terms of language families there's a whole bunch of language families in Papua New Guinea so Europe is basically one dominant language family there's a there's a finno-ugric language family that ties Hungarian and Finnish and such and summon in modern day Russia minority language groups the island of New Guinea alone has not just a bunch of language a bunch of language families there's a ton of linguistic evidence here and what I want us to see is that the linguistic evidence separate language families in Australia and a whole bunch in Papua New Guinea fit this relative timing of the settling this seems to indicate that the Australian Aborigines and the the speakers have all these language families in New Guinea arrived here first there's there's a synthesis a relative synthesis there's deep linguistic origins for Papua New Guinea and for Australia and archaeologically they'd say they were some of the earliest arrivals here so there's some other some other points of agreement I want us to see linguistically and with combined with archaeologically it looks like whoever arrived in Australia in Papua New Guinea arrived first we'll talk about the question of whether there was a Riesling momentarily but just based on linguistics there's a bunch of different deep language families in New Guinea there's a deep linguistic origin for Australia and this seems to fit this relative kupuna guineans Melanesians first and then the austronesians and Polynesians later what about genetics though this is where it gets very interesting and may illumine potential connections to the early americas let's begin with this study notice that they don't sample any groups in the Pacific again because they're where the people are and historically again this has been neglected because there haven't been that many people in the Pacific so instead we're gonna turn to this study which does sample so this particular study try to get as broad an ethnic sampling of the globe but perhaps a shallow look there's more Southeast Asian groups there's Filipino groups there's New Guinea groups we'll talk about this as well as some of the other groups from other studies we're just going to begin here though and what I want us to look at first notice I've colored groups from Oceania and dark purple we want to find spots on this tree where the dark purple peoples are and there's two spots if you're able to look closer you might not see it based on the level of zooming I have here there's a group up here and there's a group down here I'm going to begin with the upper and you might recall from previous episodes that we've been assigning letters and names and such would seem somewhat arbitrary to these various groups but there is a method to this madness mainstream scientists have a system to doing it we've talked about how the very deep branches in the tree get assigned first of all a letter of the alphabet an uppercase letter of the outfit ABCDE so forth then if these very deep branches break up into subgroups you assign a number so there we've talked about the the group R and group R 1 R 2 and then if that gets broken up efore that's R 1 a R 1 B so it's letters numbers letters numbers and so forth that's the system that they have for assigning it and what we see here is that there are so many deep groupings in the Pacific they're assigned separate letters there's s there's K there's M in Europe we talk about r1 be a very specific sub grouping being done in Western Europe in the Pacific alone and Capone again you have multiple deep branchings and they're assigned these separate letters dr. Jensen just to clarify here for those that may not have seen some of the previous episodes this is all based on research conducted on differences in similarities in the Y chromosome inherited through the mail correct exactly this is this is y chromosome based and they in this tree is reconstructed based on how many differences in similarities so when I say there's a deep branching it means there are huge differences in the Y chromosome the male and here to DNA between if we can zoom in here momentarily just to see who these people are the co Sippy that the dark purple or the Papua New Guineans the Agua are people from the Philippines the eight are from the Philippines labo and bajo are also the close by just to put them on the map here and India Indonesia so even though they're geographically close they have the they have tremendous genetic differences among them there's there's there's a huge number of Y chromosome differences even even though they're geographically very close physically the kupuna guineans of course have this what I'm gonna say is a sort of an African look with dark-skinned African like features and hair and nose and lips and such Indonesians many of them have a more of Asian look well the Filipinos do as well yet the specific Filipino peoples that we looked at are called Negrito groups because they have an african appearance to them they're a small minority in the philippines but there are dark skinned curly-haired people in the philippines that's who these octa and IA two peoples are and they're right next on the tree these Indonesians and when I say next to it's a very deep next to there next to geographically yet they don't have these common ancestors some slippery a thousand BC which is remarkable so geographically close they're neighbors yet genetically on this y-chromosome tree the differences are enormous and indicate a very deep ancient history which again seems to fit what we've been discussing linguistically and archaeologically the settlement of the Pacific the Polynesian settlement happens late in history the Melanesian settlement and notice that these arrows pass through Indonesia happens very early so that's where we're at so far now it raises some questions why do we have lighter skinned Asian looking peoples as part of this ancient mix I thought linguistically Indonesia was tied to Madagascar over here ins in the Pacific Islands and Polynesians why would they have this this deep heritage well if you look at some of the peoples of Indonesia you might notice that they seem to have what could be perhaps African looking Kapoor and New Guinea type features this is one particular tribe in Indonesia these three gentlemen are all part of the same tribe yet if you look carefully at their faces some significant differences there's diversity even within this single Indonesian tribe look at his eyes look how East Asian they appear yet look at the noses and the lips of these gentlemen are those African and origin I'm going to show you two slides now in which I keep the lady on the left who's Chinese and the gentleman on the right who's Papua New Guinean the same but the middle person is going to be an Indonesian in each case but a different animation there are some Indonesians who bear obvious resemblance to East Asia not identical obviously his nose his lips are different from this lady's facial structure but his eyes his skin tone look each stage if there are other Indonesians who if we didn't know anybody look like they're a mix of perhaps Asian features and yet have strong resemblances nose lips and such perhaps skin tone to the Papua New Guineans well that's not accidental I don't think we've looked so far at one of the genetic branches that show up in Papua New Guinea now I want to look at another one that might give us some hints as to why these physical similarities and differences exist in people groups that are geographically very close so let's move our attention now down to here purple shows up down here this deep deep purple that I'm labeling Oceania this is part of a larger group that we call Group C so again it's a different letter because it's got a deep connection Group C has a diversity of peoples on it let's zoom in first and see who they are and then look at their connections and see what this means historically notice that the again this this royal blue indicates East Asian Southeast Asian might not recognize these names Marut is Indonesian I ate again are these Negrito African looking peoples in the Philippines label is Indonesian what's this this is light green this is South Asian Indian such there's an Indian person that shows up in this lineage and in fact there is a whole group of South Asians that have a deep connection in this group see due soon and bajo Oregon Indonesians here's the the purple the Papua New Guineans and if we go down here on the on these branches pink is Siberia there's a whole bunch of Siberian groups light green is Central Asian so you might not recognize these names just recognize that they're pink they're Siberian Cossacks you might recognize that name Central Asian there's so there's this this big siberian branch that's part of the tree now the date ana you can you can see here there's there's a big deep blue branch a deep green branch blue the Papua New Guineans show up here again if we brought in data from other studies you can see there's there would be deep Austrian Aborigine branches here there's a deep siberian branch this splitting up happens around 800 BC now again depending where you put Noah that date changes some the point is it happens after the dates we saw in this other branching it seems to be a second the vacation event which may have some echo and what can refer to in in the Australian Aborigine legends or people here before well what does this mean how can we understand these deep branching events so again notice what's happening here around 800 BC or sometime in the distant past there's an South Asian lineage that emerges there's the South Eastern Asian lineage Indonesian lineages that emerge if we had more other groups that we brought in here that'd be Australia Aborigine and Papua New Guinean lineages that emerge there's a Siberian lineage that emerges so let's put these on the map combining this study along with others around 800 BC after the settling of Papua New Guinea in Australia Australian Aborigines there's a diversification event where you have an ancient lineage that shows up in Siberian Central Asia if we brought another data you'd see a Japanese lineage you'd see again Southeast Asian Papua New Guinean Aborigine there's South Asian so these it appears to be a migration event where these groups spread out and these lineages appear them to be restricted after they split there's a lineage that seems to be restricted to Japan restricted to Siberia and Central Asia restricted to India restricted restricted they spread out and then take up you know take up their routes spread out and then plant new routes out on these locations so what in the world is going on here who's the one who's spreading out where do these people come from and why do they end up in these locations looking at how the geography is spread out here does it mean that there's a Filipino group Indonesian group that's that's spreading out in all directions do you take the bull's-eyes center and attribute it that way so that there's a second group of it then moves into Australia and Papua New Guinea I want to take a deeper look at this again this study doesn't sample any groups in the Pacific but it does have people or in Group C I'm at this study because it also has people in Group D which are close by and in this particular study group D has a very strong echo and in the study the only echo in Japan I think it's about a third of Japan and I've beaten when I had this study in Hana thought oh this just must be an ancient Japanese lineage well lo and behold if you look more broadly in the globe and especially at some of these neglected minority groups there is a group of people in the Andaman Islands you'd probably never heard of these before on this who studied South Asian history they belong I think to India the Great and the Minnie's peoples do not look like Indians like South Asians they look like Africans they're very dark-skinned dark-haired curly-haired it looked like African peoples and they show up so they're nearly extinct the male's that we've been able to sample show up in Group D they share a common ancestor with the Japanese people and they share a common ancestor around the same time that we saw this migration event in Group C so what in the world is going on here let's add this to the map I'm gonna color than purple because they have this obvious physical resemblance to people's right here so you have in ancient times something that's probably never documented history but from genetics we have an event for some dispersal of peoples not the Babel dispersal this is after that this is at least a thousand years after that and at least a thousand years after the initial settling of kupuna Guinea and Australia so what in the world is going on here in this study the groups Sea Peoples show up down here C&D show up down here sub-saharan African peoples show up right here Zig around African people show up only there if we go to this study again I mentioned you can find even though you don't have the kapu New Guineans and such you do have people that are part of groups C and D and you have a much better sampling of Africa so Group C and D is show up there sub-saharan Africa shows up there and only there and from my perspective if you look at the distribution of sub-saharan Africans in these lineages I've and so the zoomed out scenario but I'm doing this because I want you to see that C and D are almost swallowed up in sub-saharan Africa you could make the case that they look like their African descendants again the original Papua New Guineans show up in SK and M up here so I would argue that genetically there's definitely evidence for an initial very early settling of Kuna Guinean Australian Aborigines but could there be a second settling again we've looked at in Group C a distribution it and seems to be an 800 ad C and D there's there's something that happens where people spread out all across South East North Asia as well into into the Pacific so what's going on is this an Indonesian group that spreads out could this be dark-skinned people's African peoples who moved into Africa and then decided to move back out of after and keep going let's population history when we think about these ethnic or so-called racial components remember again the Pacific Australian Aborigines historically at least in a traditional sense have been viewed as people poor they've always been a very small part of the global world population and if you think about what we discussed in episodes three and four where ethnic change can happen faster than we think about that and about the math of reproductive growth these dark-skinned peoples have historically been very few in number so let's think about one hypothesis is this is this ancient migration event 800 BC they're they're spreading out could it be a dark-skinned peoples well if it was a migration of dark-skinned peoples from the Pacific a region of the globe where they've always been few a number what we're talking about most likely then would be a migration of a small number of people into South Asia East Asia Siberia Japan were they're probably the minority population and based on the genetics that we discussed in episodes three and four their descendants would probably not look dark-skinned and dark hair they blend into the dominant population yet they could end up leaving genetically descendants in which their heritage is obviously coming from the Pacific my point is if this is a migration of dark-skinned peoples make hundred BC and I'm suspicious that it is you would not see dark-skinned peoples in these other regions of the globe because simple math however you could still see this heritage being dark-skinned here's another Geographic clue I want to bring into the equation again dark-skinned people's I've been using the term African dark-skinned people show up heavily in sub-saharan Africa well how interesting is that each of these peoples here here about the Negrito the IATA AG to people's who looked like africans and here and here all of these dark-skinned dark-haired people's and also over here not only do they share some morphological similarities they all have ancient lineages I mentioned that this s and K and M lineages exist in Papua New Guinea and my guess is actually that so here you've got dark-skinned peoples the age on octa Alta here this is dark skin this is dark skin this is dark skin I'm suspicious that these Indonesians even though they may look light-skinned are probably result of intermixing I mean they're right next to to put puno Guinea so my guess is is they're probably light-skinned but originally Papua New Guinean peoples they have a very ancient lineage the Andaman East peoples are part of this ancient migration event you can ask the question are they originally dark-skinned peoples who make their way into Japan originally Japanese Asian peoples who wait make their way into the great Andaman Islands I'm suspicious that it's the former that it's dark-skinned peoples who eventually make their way into Japan so that some Japanese peoples actually have dark-skinned heritage same thing then for India and Indonesia and Siberia my suspicion is these are dark-skinned peoples originally this is an ancient dark-skinned lineage that spreads out and then today because of just the math and the genetics that we discussed look Asian or Indian or these so forth again they're swallowed up in sub-saharan Africa we'll talk about in future episodes how Africa also has a very ancient genetic lineage how intriguing that these regions of the globe the Andaman Islands some of the Philip the Filipinos again the dark-skinned ones New Guinea Australia subsea all of these have a certain morphological tie-in physical similarity and they have an ancient genetic heritage and also they exist at a similar latitude so here is a narrative a narrative hypothesis that seems to be emerging could all of these connections genetically and physical be due to a lot of early migration activity whatever the exact explanation is we know first of all that there's ancient lineages in these spots and there is a lot of ancient migration activity regardless of what the actual origin of this activity is there's a lot of movement going on in the ancient past more than we ever thought could it be that they were after babbles some people moving down into Africa some people moving here and maybe after babbles some people continuing to move this direction well what's to stop them from continuing to move eastward if there were people that went this way and then went this way and we know there's a lot of migration happening what's to stop these dark-skinned people's from continuing their migrations in the eastward direction well if they did that that would bring them to the shores of the Americas the earliest peoples are the Olmecs that we find archaeological evidence for not necessarily a household name but their carvings are something our viewers might be familiar with how intriguing that the physical features on these carvings look at the shape of the nose the eyes the lips seem to find an echo in modern-day Indonesia and I've argued that these some of these Indonesians look like they're the product of mixing between Asian groups and Papua New Guineans and the Papua New Guineans being some of the earliest after the Olmecs come the Mayans they have a BC era origin archaeologically a late BC shortly before the time of Christ and they of course continue into the ad era based on their carvings to me they look like they have more of the Asian look you can see it better here in this particular carving and I'm bringing up the carvings because we have to remember and we have to get out of our minds the image we have of today's Native Americans because the physical features these people possess are the product of a later migration event they're going to echo their Asian origin and they're mixing perhaps with the peoples who were here first so whatever features they have are not necessarily the features that the earliest Americans have that's why I'm emphasizing these carvings who did these people come from could it be that the builders of these monuments came from people's like this could these be first Americans looked it's a very intriguing hypothesis and we'll talk about in future episodes some genetic tools we could use to explore it at the moment nobody knows whether not this is true there's some very intriguing physical linguistic genetic clues that are suggesting this direction nobody has the genetics yet of the earliest Americans but these together suggest a very intriguing connection between these ancient dark eras of human history and again we'll talk about in future episodes ways in the future we might be able to find out and obviously I have a great interest in this and we'll talk about steps I've been taking the last several months to try to answer this research that's still happening and what I want emphasize here again is this is a new era of creation science research this isn't just anti evolutionary research we've made so much progress we can now begin to try to address explore and answer questions that mainstream science is not at access to this is creation science making positive new steps for the future taking the lead in academic research and illuminating aspects of our history that no one's been able to illuminate before well I can tell the fan you get very excited about all this of course and you're enjoying this I actually I guess this is one of the positives if we can say that the covert 19 situation where you get locked in your house and you just research this stuff and then you're able to give the results to all of us you know I've said before I you know in one of the previous sessions that when you come into the Creation Museum one of the first big exhibits areas big Zippity area we call the starting points room we explain to people the starting point determines your worldview and how you interpret evidence if people had have taken the Bible as their starting point as their foundation for their worldview taking that as God's Word infallible history given their is infallible and then started thinking about all that we see in regard to people groups in archaeology and now genetics research we would know a lot more about human history but you're making up for that in the research that you're doing you're going to put it in a book hopefully sometime during 2021 we'll have that book and maybe do some more series discussing these topics but we're going to continue on with this series we're now at episode 16 so 17 and 18 will be the next to next week before I ask you a quick summary of those people can go to our streaming service you can get a 7-day free trial and it's answers TV answers TV and we have hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of items on there right now for kids for adults the teens we have fun entertainment music of course we have a very high standard in all that we do in regard to those things our previous BBS songs the kids help moms and dads entertain them to teach them God's Word we have kids programs we have science we have Bible we have Ray Comfort and quite a number of his videos on there it's a lot of our live programming they do all their like programming now goes to answers TV and we still have live programming on Facebook on YouTube but it all now goes to answers not TV so encourage people to subscribe to answers dot TV and go and watch all the previous episodes so quickly before we finish what can we expect from episode 17 and 18 coming up and before I do just one more quick foot stamping I want to point out that I think what this episode shows is a refutation of a common stereotypical accusation against this well.you creationist your anti science you kill science God did it that settles it and there's no more questions to ask what we've just seen is actually if you start with the Bible which gives it tremendous framework in which to understand the world it opens up a tremendous number of new research questions an entirely new paradigm that makes progress starting with the scripture is very pro science not anti science and what we've just observed is itself a refutation of that sadly common accusation well what we're going to discover more research questions have run explore we're going to return to Europe in episode 17 looking at the question what happened to the Vikings can you and I be sentence of these peoples we've been looking at a lot of the Central Asian connections well that's not the entire story there's more to be explored in Europe and if today's episode wasn't provocative enough in episode 18 we're gonna go to the question of can the Jews be identified genetically can we find Moses and Aaron in the history in our world today what about the relationship to the Arabs and the Muslims and the long history of fracas there of course there's eschatological questions for Christians different camps on the future of ethnic guest role or not so if that wasn't explosive enough today surely will light a powder keg in episode 18 and I hope our viewers will join us for that okay episode 18 I think we got to get a lot of comments there's gonna be very interesting that particular one but we look forward to the next two episodes 17 and 18 and how many more do you think he'll be how many more weeks book do you think will do well how much content do you have we'll probably do about 20 to 25 after that we'll look at sub-saharan Africa ancient India we still want to talk about the Neanderthals we'll talk about some additional biblical insights that I've been prompted towards will eventually summarize and basically retell history in short order in light of all that we've discussed what is the history of the globe we'll do that in short rapid-fire summary form will deal with an episode on the question of evolutionary evidence what about this claim but know Adam and Eve and and what do you do about these ancient dates will have a hopefully a very helpful episode on that and so and end with where do we go from here how can we understand I'm a viewer and how can we personally say Who am I what steps can we take is is there a can we start a company ancestry and ancestry and Genesis what what do our viewers do if they want to understand their own heritage because again this is stuff you can't find necessarily in commercial genetic testing so that's that's where we eventually want to land and I anticipate 20 to 25 episodes in total to reach that point very good well thanks dr. Jensen and again you can go to answers TV to see all of the programs catch up on everything that dr. Jensen has related to us when you look forward to the next two programs next week you

Channel: Ken Ham

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Keywords: Ken Ham, ArkEncounter, Creation Museum, Answers In Genesis, Biblical Apolgetics

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Length: 51min 24sec (3084 seconds)

Published: Sun May 17 2020