katherine the great Posted December 12, 2018 Posted December 12, 2018 1 hour ago, Metis_LDS said: I agree with what you said about micromanage, but what about credit for God for the system of evolution itself? Well I credit God with the creation of life but science can't do that. Science only deals with testable hypotheses using empirical evidence. 1
katherine the great Posted December 12, 2018 Posted December 12, 2018 50 minutes ago, Metis_LDS said: Yes I had my DNA tested to be more sure of my First Nations heritage. I wish we had a sample of Abraham DNA. What are your paternal and maternal haplogroups?
Metis_LDS Posted December 12, 2018 Author Posted December 12, 2018 44 minutes ago, katherine the great said: What are your paternal and maternal haplogroups? Sorry that is out of my league. I found about an 80% match with Navajo peoples. That really interesting for me because they seem to have travelled to the south (it is said in the 1500's) from about where my people where up north. For reasons which I do not understand there is little access to Canadian tribes DNA online to match with. 1
clarkgoble Posted December 12, 2018 Posted December 12, 2018 20 minutes ago, Metis_LDS said: Sorry that is out of my league. I found about an 80% match with Navajo peoples. That really interesting for me because they seem to have travelled to the south (it is said in the 1500's) from about where my people where up north. For reasons which I do not understand there is little access to Canadian tribes DNA online to match with. Some tribes have very complex views of DNA. Many object to trying to reduce a tribal identity down to DNA. You saw that for instance this year with the Elizabeth Warren DNA controversy. There are a few other issues in Canada tried to the unique politics of first nations that are quite different from down in the United States. My own ancestry is about ⅛ Sami although that's the European first nations. They too found lots of persecution and to a degree genocide from the influx of caucasians into Europe. More or less one group went east across the land bridge and the other group went west into Sweden and Norway. There's a bit of mixing with the Inuit over the passageway beyond Greenland but from the genetic data not as much as I'd have suspected. When I was young I had the conceit it meant I was native American (perhaps a bit like Warren thought) but no, I'm something else. It's interesting how most people don't even know about European first nations despite a lot of their heritage being appropriated for our Christmas traditions.
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