How come Ancient DNA still exists in "Millions of Years Old" Fossils?

Started by Xavier, February 08, 2022, 01:04:43 PM

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Xavier

How do those believe that alleged "millions of years" have passed since Adam's Creation explain Ancient DNA? As is well known, DNA cannot survive more than about 10,000 years. Let us be generous and grant to the Evolutionists that it somehow survived 100,000 years. That still isn't sufficient time for Evolution to take place. The Most Logical Inference from this Scientific Observation is not that

Hypothesis I, Null Hypothesis: Although DNA generally decomposes in 10,000 years, it somehow "miraculously" managed to survive "millions of years."

Hypothesis II, Alternate Hypothesis: Because DNA certainly decomposes within 10,000 years, and with almost 100% certainty does so in 100,000 years, it is Logical to make the Inference, from this Scientific Observation, that "Millions of Years" never passed.

On a scale of 0 to 1 Probability, or 0% to 100% Probability, how probable would you rate the Null Hypothesis, and the Alternate Hypothesis (which will of course be 1-Prob(Null Hypothesis)]? I would rate it at least 0.01% to 99.99% based on this 1 Argument Alone.
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TerrorDæmonum

There are a few issues with your question:

Quote from: Xavier on February 08, 2022, 01:04:43 PM
How do those believe that alleged "millions of years" have passed since Adam's Creation explain Ancient DNA? As is well known, DNA cannot survive more than about 10,000 years. Le
You are asking an impossible question: nobody claims that humans existed a million or more years ago. The degradation of DNA is not as absolute as you claim it is.

The faith does not rely on it, and science will not actually answer any questions about when and where Adam was created or the state of the world as he would have perceived it. Whatever we have now are ruins, and the original order is lost. It would be like trying to piece together the original form of a tree from its ashes.

So, whatever fragments of bones and other evidence that is found, I don't think any of it has any real bearing on the faith. People can use that stuff to support other theories, but the evidence itself has no such conclusions on its own.

Stanley

Quote from: Xavier on February 08, 2022, 01:04:43 PM
How do those believe that alleged "millions of years" have passed since Adam's Creation explain Ancient DNA? As is well known, DNA cannot survive more than about 10,000 years. Let us be generous and grant to the Evolutionists that it somehow survived 100,000 years. That still isn't sufficient time for Evolution to take place.

"Ancient DNA" is DNA preserved after an organism has died. You appear to be suggesting that if DNA cannot survive for X years outside a living organism, then DNA could not exist in a living organism more than X years ago. If that's what you're suggesting, it doesn't follow.

Working DNA has not be recovered from dinosaurs (Jurassic Park was fiction). DNA has been recovered from samples a few hundred thousand years old. In 2003, apparently the "oldest reliable DNA" was from samples of Siberian sediment from plants up to 400,000 years old.
http://www.cbcb.umd.edu/confcour/Fall2010/CMSC858E-materials/Stokstad-Science-2003.pdf

Finally, I'm not sure who says Adam's creation was millions of years ago. Homo sapiens is dated to about 300,000 years ago.