The Genographic Project is project started by, the National Geographic Society, IBM, geneticist Spencer Wells, and the Waitt Family Foundation. The idea is to determine the migration patterns starting in Africa and going to the rest of the world. The project is contiuing but they have paliminary results, which National Geographic describes in some detail. One factor they left out is the fact that their conclusions are based largly on the assumption of Evolution.
They show the it starting in Namibia, in Africa, based entirely on an Evolutionary interpretation of the fossil record. This Evolutionary interpretation of the data also influences the migration atlas and genetic relation graphs. Despite this fact the data as presented by National Geographic still shows indcations of the pst Babel despersion as mentioned in the Bible.
The apparent trends showing a migration from Namibia are 100% interpretation. The raw data in this study is a bunch of Mitochondrial and Y-chromosome DNA samples from various parts of the world. From this data it is possible
to show which lines are more closely related to which, but to project back to an origin requires making assumptions about where that origin was. Those who did this study made the evolutionary assumption that the origin was in Namibia, however one can also make the Biblical assumption that it started in Iraq. Both are arbitrary assumptions and they produce
different directions in some of the the migrational trends.
Unfortunately the public is not told about the assumptions made in these studies, in fact the Evolutionists that did it probably do not realize that starting in Namibia is an arbitrary assumption. That is simply where their theoretical system says it must have started.
Unfortunetly, the article does not present the raw data, which would include the precise locations were the genetic markers were found. The lines on the map probably suffer at least some what from their evolutionary mindset. A raw data map would just have the points where they got specific markers without their connect the dots. There is nothing innate about the genetic markers that show the direction of migration, unless you accept their dates and starting point which are based on evolutionary theory.
One thing the map shows are clear focal points in Iraq in for both Mitochondria and Y-chromosome lines. Right about the area where Babel was. So the map clearly show eveidence of the post Babel dispersion. Several Mitochondria lines go from Iraq into Europe and Northern Asia. One goes right into Africa, with a secondary migration from there to Asia. While the map shows the Y-chromosome focal points to the south of the Mitochondria focal point, it is still about the area where Babel was and it
shows some similar migration patterns.
This interpretation is supported by their own family trees of both Mitochondria and Y-chromosome lines. This is particularly evident in the Y-chromosome line where M89 (the one in Iraq) has about twice as many off shoots as the other lines combined. A similar pattern can be seen in the Mitochondria. In both cases if you place ancestor marker in Iraq, the distribution of decedents is more even than if you place it in Africa.
One other thing about this data that supports the Bible is that there is clear 3 way split in both and the Mitochondria Y-chromosome lines when one starts in Iraq. Now Noah had 3 sons and 3 daughter in-laws. Since the Bible does not indicate that Noah and his wife had any kids after the Flood, we would expect a 3 way spit, and that is what we have.
