Startling new information about the human race (Part 1)

well hi everyone we're going to do things a little differently uh this time for a facebook live i'm actually interviewing one of our scientists dr nathaniel jensen and we're doing it over the internet and i'm on a computer and he's on a computer at home and we're able to do this and to get it to you and so dr jensen actually has a phd in biology from harvard university and he's one of the scientists at answers in genesis and he does a lot of work on genetics a lot of research on genetics he's been doing a lot in fact he wrote the book replacing darwin which just absolutely devastates the idea that natural selection is a mechanism for evolution but he's been doing a lot of genetics research on people groups around the world and we've entitled this series and we'll do one at 7 p.m tonight and then 7 p.m sunday night and then we'll continue on uh with this series and see how we go on the weekends so the title a new history of the human race the resettling of the americas before columbus and other surprises from dna so how about that and he's going to i think he's going to blow people's minds with some of this stuff for instance he would say this what does it mean to be of german descent is there such a thing as a german a european do egyptians exist chinese and so it goes on and in fact i i think he's going to talk about the fact that a british really french or a french british or that should stir up uh the world anyway and who were the earliest people that settled the americas i mean was it the american indians was it not uh he's got some fascinating information because he's going to show you he's going to he's going to look at people groups around the world differently than what you have heard from most places so uh dr jensen uh welcome and let me say one other thing just to qualify right from the start when you use the terms black and white we always say there's no truly black people no truly white people but we do it for the sake of talking about you know people's understanding of particular groups we're all the same skin shade but you you're sort of talking about regard to people groups and so on so dr jeanson tell us you know give us some some insight into what you're going to talk about in this series and share some exciting information with us thank you i am very excited to talk about this i think our viewers will be too just a little bit of personal note when my colleagues and i were working on this research we got to a point where the results seemed so shocking we thought it couldn't possibly be true but the more we dug into it the more it started lining up with known history and what we found is history as you learn in the textbooks tends to be a history of politics who was ruling where who was the king when but when you look at the history of peoples which is what dna records there's a significant divergence and so it rewrites who we came from and how we think about ourselves so there's a lot in store we'll put we'll take this in in major sections the the first several episodes will deal with some of the the background shocks that'll set you up for what's to come later just because if i jumped right into the genetics you wouldn't believe me because it's that revolutionary so the big question we're going to answer in each of these sessions is who do we come from who are the ancestors we know from scripture the the 4 sees the old testament seven seas of creation creation corruption uh catastrophe confusion what we're going to focus on heavily is what happened after confusion how do we go from babel to the people groups we see today what does it mean to be of european descent what does it mean to be african all of these sorts of things that we take for granted and have underlying assumptions i've had underlying assumptions about and a lot of the mysteries for example what happened to these ancient civilizations the persians the greeks the romans history books at least when i took history they present these kingdoms as rising falling as if they pop into existence out of nowhere and then disappear without a trace but could they be in my family tree and your family tree are we related to the ancient pharaohs i've also grown up with the assumption i guess sort of the default that the peoples of the lands that these civilizations were in today are are the descendants so if if you talk to a greek they're the descendants of the ancient greeks they can claim aristotle you talk to modern egyptians surely they can claim the pharaohs the modern iranians can claim the persians or to put in the negative i don't think any german would claim greek heritage or persian heritage or egyptian heritage and i've discovered that all those underlying stereotypes are wrong and we'll discover this together so some of the just to give you some of that a preview we'll see that what i'm calling black white people exists of course there's no such thing as black and white with various shades of brown but as the as the mainstream populace refers to black and white and divides people into races we'll find that these racial designations reveal some hold some big surprises and especially for people like white supremacists they might be quite shocked to find out what their genetic heritage is and hopefully that'll change some of their thinking we're going to have a a long time spent on what it means to be a european and are there such things as indigenous europeans we'll see that many europeans probably the most europeans are of recent asian descent central asian middle eastern descent and if you look at genetics and you go back just a few hundred years most european nationalities disappear you don't see a long greek lineage a roman lineage a german lineage these sorts of things and of course this touches on other aspects of history things that i've wondered about for a long time i grew up never being taught the pre-columbian history of the americas when we're taught u.s history it's basically columbus pilgrims and british colonies but what happened before that and i've gotten questions from questions about so so where can we go to find the history of these people well wherever you've gone before it's about to get dramatically rewritten so dr uh jensen um you know most kids these days and they go to public schools and so on and taught it's aiping your ancestry so really maybe we could uh title a series whose dna is really in your ancestry exactly exactly and we'll get to we'll we'll hit some of the preview questions initially just to set up the genetics we'll then sort of work from from the present day backwards in time and eventually get to those ancient history questions which of course eventually touch on what about the apes can you see adam and eve in your dna what about noah and his family do they show up in genetics where's the echoes of biblical history so we'll get to those as we go from from uh from the present day backwards in time and the reason i do that is just because we're taking dna or i should say that the dna sequences that we have in our public databases are from primarily living people and so you've got to start in the present and unravel the effects of recent history from the dna history we can infer to go all the way back in time or to put it this way i started this project trying to look for the history the the the signature of babel in our dna and i quickly recognized even the bible talks about a whole lot of history after babel just look at the history of israel being conquered being made captives and going back and forth to foreign lands there's a lot of history that happens after babel and you have to unravel that first before you can go back to the to the ancient time points and that does it brings us back of course to the to the question of the neanderthals and who were they and were they primitive were they cavemen were they advanced what we'll find is that they were probably survivors of ancient catastrophes and really some of the clues we have to their nature to their civilization come from comparison to the americas and how our stereotypes and views of the native americans have changed with time and those same principles apply then back to to the neanderthals but my my overall goal this is one of them there's several though there's there's apologetic elements in this there's just pure curiosity elements of what happened in history but ultimately though it's it's the question of who are you who am i and i've taken certain things for granted you take certain things for granted and my hope is you'll be able to marvel at your own story of how you got here the stories of those you love and really of all the people around the world and marvel at these in a way you've never dreamed of marveling before it's dramatically changed my own perspective on my own past i hope it'll change yours so today i want to make the point in a in a unique way that the world is a lot smaller than what you think this is not where i started this research and i married my wife shown here on the screen just uh in 2013 when we were dating 2012 i really gave no thought to how related we were i was originally from wisconsin she originally from oh she was born in italy to missionary parents but uh her family hails from virginia west virginia and she grew up in alabama so hey the world's a big place what what what reason would i have to think that we're somehow closely related now obviously we're we're all related because we go back to adam and eve right exactly but you're saying really we're all much more closely related than what we've been made out to believe exactly and my guess is most people would say oh my wife is my fourth cousin or third cousin they'd start to feel a little bit uncomfortable i've i've had some people be kind of proud of that fact and i've scratched my head a little bit but i think most folks would say yes i understand we go back to babel but that was such a long time ago uh there's no reason for me to feel icky about how closely related my spouse and i are or how closely related my parents are and i've i've discovered that this is wrong it's not because we've learned more about our family histories so i'm half german my dad has done a lot of work in my family tree and on my mother's side you we've got last names like minecraft maya belmont craig good german names like that on my dad's side it's nelson jeanson heineck and my wife's maiden name is vaughn v-a-u-g-h-a-n and so on her side wood skaggs gross vonn without the a and she told me that there's no need to draw any assumptions about the relationship between the vons without the a and the vons with the a but i'll leave it at that so scotch irish is what they'd say for that background and again i think most of us would say okay one side of the family hails from the uk area one side from mainland europe never the two shall mix right this is these these these countries have long and storied histories there's no reason to give this a second thought of the ways and one of the reasons i've been prompted to rethink this is comes uh came about sort of indirectly so the last time i took history was in high school and i've learned that the history i learned the world history i learned was basically a history of western civilization and in a in a nutshell it was uh essentially that civilization started somewhere in mesopotamia now i was home schooled and went to a christian high school so we probably talked about babel briefly in the flood but then it kind of jumped right into mesopotamia talk about egypt ancient greece ancient rome the the shift tends to be on europe then at that point we talk about the dark ages after the fall of the roman empire then the renaissance reformation and then the age of discovery colonization so forth and there we are that leaves a lot of the world's history out of the discussion and so i've wondered what happened elsewhere in the world and as i've had to look into this more because my own research i've discovered that the answers even in history textbooks leave much that's unsatisfying so i'm just going to race through real fast a much broader view of world history you might not be able to see the specific empires on the screen what i want our viewers to see though is how much of the world is not covered even in mainstream history texts so and here's a we're going to just take a few snapshots here 400 bc in yellow here in the center of the screen this is the akamanador or persian empire you can think of biblical history there book of daniel and so forth northern europe is is mostly empty there's there's beginning movements here in greece in just about 100 years alexander the great's going to sweep through here and and conquer much of the world you can see in india there's some civilization china has is uh in the midst of dynastic change but sub-saharan africa has very little to show here australia has very little to show the americas seem mostly empty blank it doesn't change much if we go to uh the time of christ then 81 you'll recognize here in red the roman empire in which uh the empire that was in existence when christ came you can see another empire here in the middle east again there's activity in india china but again nothing in africa to speak of australia central asia north america south america there's a little bit in central america where modern-day mexico is but not much to speak of there's still a lot of the world that isn't the story isn't told 500 years later again same blanks largely appear china's extended some of its domain it's again going through dynastic succession there's there's some activity here in central asia siberia those empty again the typical candidates for question marks are still there africa america's australia 900 a.d same thing the main blanks remain even in just 500 years ago columbus has discovered the new world 1492 you're beginning to see some settlement in the americas from spain and portugal but most of modern-day russia is empty sub-saharan africa is still empty australia empty on and on it goes even up till 1700 america's mostly unsettled russian empire is finally reaching east you begin to see some activity in africa transiently even in 1815 just 200 years ago we're looking at a a world map that is largely empty and i say empty in comparison to the modern map in which basically every square inch of this planet has someone saying and i guess i've i've looked at the modern world map and assume it's been the same all throughout history but it's not it's right up just 200 years ago much of the world is empty and so i've grown up with this mystery really wondering what is the story of these other parts of the world whoops i'm wondering how to keep my earphones in my ear while i'm talking too first time here we go so these questions have remained outstanding and i've learned part of the answer is lack of written records so we know from archaeology that in northern europe there's people there they're doing things but they didn't write down what they did whereas you get to the roman empire and such some of the greeks they're writing histories they're talking about what they did so that's that's part of the reason for why there's so many blanks but think about it here is the map in 400 bc are we to believe that there are people all around the globe but 90 of them just choose not to write down are we still missing 90 of the history of the planet because people made decisions about whether or not they had time to discuss what their ancestors did one of the shocks for me has been to view the map not in terms of political realms but in terms of people so here's another map of the world that shows you not political realms but population density and this is a recent map this is 82 000 so just 20 years ago and what strikes me rather starkly is how much the world today is still largely empty i don't get that impression looking at a political map so you can see here australia is mostly unpopulated north africa mostly unpopulated half of china so china has a billion people they're concentrated in half of what is the country of china the other half of it is mostly empty siberia canada is mostly empty the western united states amazon there's lots of the world middle east here you can see saudi arabia almost nobody there if you think about it and if you know the climates and geography of the world it makes sense so here's a map of global temperatures siberia canada are some of the coldest places on the planet purple of course is even colder like antarctica on greenland but blue royal blue there you can see these cold places and so not surprisingly there are few people up in these very cold places hard to have in existence there and related to that is sort of the topography and climate of the planet so you can see in china the habitable regions are largely in the east you go west you're in the tibetan plateau high altitude mountains it's much harder to eke out in existence there of course north africa is mostly the sahara desert middle east is desert australia has the great outback and can tell you more about that western united states mountains jungles you might think are a great place to to live because the climate but if you want to increase your population size you really need agriculture and the jungles for one tend to have poor soils and the other is there's a lot of land to clear if you want to start eating out in existence so we're looking at the globe today where people exist and where they're concentrated makes sense they tend to be concentrated in those parts of the planet where the climate favors it but it's not how i'm used to looking at the world mostly or they're still significant chunks largely empty of people so let's take this view of the world and then go back in time to 1000 bc and we're going to we're going to take 1 000 year leaps through history so we'll do 1000 bc 1ad 1000 a.d in the present day just to see how the concentration and distribution of people's changes so notice here in 1000 bc and this is then based on partially historical records and archaeological digging and such that's how these maps are reconstructed notice where people are concentrated and what i want you to see is they're mostly concentrated in those places where history books make mention india china middle east europe there's a little bit of activity here in the americas central america so the olmec civilization is going on some books will mention this but the americas are mostly empty of people sub-saharan africa mostly empty of people up here central asia siberia empty australia empty and it doesn't change much even a thousand years later you can see that it's become a little bit more intense in those regions of civilization india china middle east and turkey europe and so forth we've got a little bit more here in in the americas so this is now gone from the olmecs to the mayans their civilization is beginning you've got some activity here on the pacific coast of south america but there's still big blank gray spots on this map even in 1000 a.d there's gigantic blank spots you begin to see some more activity in africa particularly west africa which again is fairly arable and a good plan for agriculture lots of people in europe middle east india china the mayan civilization has just collapsed here by a thousand a.d but the peoples largely consist here we're just 500 years removed from the height of the aztec empires here and the incan empires down here on the pacific coast of south america and then of course we're back to the modern era and if you look at these maps carefully and you notice that changes in shade so light yellow of course is a less dense population dark brown is intense population it changes ever so slightly for the first thousand years and the second thousand years and it seems to take a big jump for the last thousand years and that's not a quirk of the people who created this map it's a reflection of the history of population growth so the term hockey stick graph of course gets a controversial treatment when we're discussing climate change it's actually an accurate description when we're discussing human population growth and you can see right around 1500 1400 there's a there's a big bend in this curve upward so to put it in math terms for those who like math in uh in a thousand a.d the world population was around 50 million it increases to only about 360 million and 1480 so 2 400 years pass and the world population doesn't even increase by a factor of 10. so 1400 is the end of the black death in europe it's it's happened a little bit earlier in east asia so the world population has gone down some and then it just explodes in the last 600 years so in the last 600 years the world population has increased 20 fold going from 360 million to nearly 8 billion today that's a massive increase dr jameson if i could just jump in here for a minute too i think it's good to point out to people that hey if man evolved millions of years ago that curve should have gone up way before then it is a real puzzle and the evolutionists say and if you think about it and meditate about this they say we had these small 10 000 people in africa not for a thousand years not for 2000 years but for tens of thousands hundreds of thousands of years and you have to ask yourself how did that small band of people survive you think about all the wars the crises the famines the plagues the black death and so forth that have struck the human population just in the last 2 500 years how does the human population evolve and stay evolved and small for that length of time it's it's it really does bother mine it doesn't make sense it doesn't make sense but this this makes sense when you think about coming from the tower of babel as the numbers increase and then suddenly you get to a point where it just dramatically goes up yeah and and the the positive side of this then from a biblical perspective is people say well how can you go from eight people to eight billion really easily it doesn't take much to go from uh the the population size at the flood to even let's say 50 million a thousand bc i think it's population doubling or less and you look at the list of the suns in genesis 10 there is not population doubling but some of those guys have four sons or more it's rapid population growth so it doesn't take much to go from zero to sixty so to speak what's interesting is why the human population didn't explode more recently i think part of the explanation is modern medicine has prolonged lifespan you don't have so much infant mortality we've made advances in agriculture we can feed more people that's probably part of the explanation for why it's exploded so dramatically whatever the explanation is we really do live at a unique time in history and this has huge implications then once we get to the genetics we'll see for how we understand it it also has big implications uh without even getting into genetics so let's let's uh here's a picture of me when my hair was taller and when i was single back in graduate school let's say uh i'm your average single guy in the modern era and i'm looking for a spouse and i do it the way many people do and i go online and i enter my profile i'm looking for a spousal match and they say you've got a hundred ladies that match what your interests are this isn't actually a hundred you have to flood the screen with faces to make represent 100 matches so let's say this is 82 000. i'm looking for a spouse well the world population has increased 20-fold in the last 600 years so if i was living in not 82 000 but 80 1400 and i was looking for a spouse again you don't have the internet but hey i need to find a spouse because the world population is 20 fold less it's the equivalent of doing this and then having only five matches and of course the further back you go in time the fewer and fewer people you get to pick from so what does this have to do with who we come from and and how we understand our ethnic identity well we all come from somebody but the history of world population growth which is really the answer to my long-standing dilemma of why the history books cover what they do and what they don't they cover where the people are is really what it comes down to and there weren't that many people in the world around there were fewer somebodies to come from so if you're a man in europe looking for a wife in 1400 there aren't that many ladies to choose from so either you're going to marry someone who's probably closer related to you than we might be comfortable with or you're going to look outside your clan and if you're looking outside your clan that probably means the peoples of the world are much more closely related than we think and i don't mean work really that babel that's all true i'm saying even more recently than that in ways we may not be comfortable with so there's a good chance you go back a few hundred years and me and my wife find a common ancestor that might make us 25th cousins which okay maybe that doesn't make many people uncomfortable but i'm gonna guess most of us don't stop and think how closely related we are in the family tree and even just to put a number on it's like oh hey spouse i view you now in a different way so the world really is smaller than we think this large planet which we live is a is an artifact of the recent spike in population growth and we'll see this played out over and over again in genetics so who do we come from how could all these people be related we'll find out they're going to be a lot more related than we think because the world's a whole lot smaller than we think and because the ancients had far fewer people to choose from when it came to spouses there's relationships among them that are much closer than we think and eventually connect to us so the world is smaller than we think and we're going to see this played out in a big way as as we get into the genetics eventually well this is going to be absolutely fascinating uh to look at this because really you're sort of rewriting the history that most people have heard at school rewriting it uh and based on genetics and then when you look at scripture you see that wow the the history in the bible then makes sense of the genetics uh that you see and that's what you're going to talk about in other programs we'll see that the biblical history makes sense we'll talk about how the evolutionary history does not we'll talk about the implications for ethnic identity how we view each other there's huge implications for racial identity racism how we treat other people for what the term foreign actually means there's all sorts of mind-bending things we're going to get into and so as you said earlier for those people who call themselves white supremacists they might be shocked to find in their ancestry people who you would call black or with dark skin exactly and you're going to find that uh for the french who and the british who i don't know there's rivalry there i guess like new zealanders and australians right but uh for the french and the british they're going to find they're more closely related than they really think they are the term brothers takes on a whole new meaning when you start digging into these questions well there we are that's this is going to be fascinating well dr jameson this is only part one like you're probably going to go for millions of years exactly but we don't have millions of years of human history so but we will conclude part one and then we will have part two again uh the next night uh sunday night at seven pm and what are you gonna just give us a quick summary what what you'll be doing there in part two i'm calling the next session why the french are probably british and vice versa we're going to take a deep dive into family trees but without even needing to look at a single dna sequence there's there's a little bit of math involved that's not intimidating at all and it's really shocking if you just stop and think about it for a little while and has immediate practical implications for some of these what we thought were separate long-standing relationships that is going to be fascinating okay so come back for part two uh 7 p.m uh sunday um march i'm trying to think what the date should be march 23 because it's march 21 uh today i think am i right there uh there's oh no this is friday the 20th so 21 so that this is the 21st this is our showing and so the 22nd sunday the 22nd of march and of course we'll have these archiving anyway but this will be a little bit of history here recording our human history and populations during the coronavirus situation so there we are all right come back for part two 7 p.m sunday night

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Published: Sun Mar 22 2020