’n Vraag wat soms gevra word is: as Adam en Eva die enigste twee mense op aarde was, waar het die ander mense vandaan gekom waarmee Kain en Set moes trou? Die antwoord is dat hulle met hulle sussies moes trou. (LW: Dieselfde vraag kan ook aan evolusioniste gevra word omdat hulle ook beweer dat alle mense ’n gemeenskaplike voorouer gehad het.)

Presies wanneer Kain vir Abel doodgemaak het weet ons nie, maar dit was voor Set se geboorte:

Genesis 4: (25)Adam het weer met sy vrou gemeenskap gehad, en sy het ’n seun in die wêreld gebring en hom Set genoem, “want,” het sy gesê, “God het vir my ’n ander kind gegee in die plek van Abel omdat Kain hom vermoor het.”

Dit was dus toe Adam honderd en dertig jaar oud was:

Genesis 5: (3)Toe Adam 130 was, het hy die vader geword van ’n seun, sy beeld, een soos hyself. Adam het hom Set genoem.

Neem in ag dat God aan die mens opdrag gegee het om te vermeerder:

Genesis 1: (28)Toe het God hulle geseën en vir hulle gesê: “Wees vrugbaar, word baie, bewoon die aarde en bewerk dit.

Alhoewel die Bybel slegs Kain, Abel en Set noem as kinders van Adam en Eva het hulle waarskynlik baie meer kinders gehad. Onthou dat Adam en Eva volwasse geskape is en dus kon hulle van die eerste dag kinders hê. Teen die tyd dat Set gebore is (toe Adam 130 jaar oud was) was Adam al moontlik oupa of selfs oupagrootjie. ’n Mens kan nie noodwendig aflei dat Set slegs die derde seun van Adam en Eva was nie.

Maar ’n mens kan mos nie met sulke naby familie trou nie

Ja, jy kan, of eerder, kón.

Abraham (1996-1821 vC) het met sy halfsuster getrou:

Genesis 20: (12)Sy is regtig my [Abraham se] suster: sy is my pa se dogter, maar nie my ma s’n nie. Ek is met haar getroud.

Lot se twee dogters het ook kinders by hom verwek (Genesis 19:31-36).

Dit was eers in Moses se tyd (1491 vC) dat God hierdie praktyke verbied het:

Levitikus 18: (11)Jy mag nie met ’n halfsuster aan vaderskant gemeenskap hê nie, want sy is jou suster.

En vandag kan ’n mens ook nie met jou niggie trou nie. Waar mense dit wel doen, is genetiese afwykings die resultaat (kyk Bylaag A hieronder).

Hoe werk dit?

Naby familie het soortgelyke mutasies in hulle ooreenstemmende genetiese inligting. Wanneer naby familie trou en daar is byvoorbeeld ’n fout op een van die pa se gene, is die waarskynlikheid groot dat dieselfde fout ook op die ma se ooreenstemmende geen sal wees. Dit sal lei tot genetiese afwykings in die kind. Indien die kind ’n produk is van nie-familielede, sal die kans baie klein wees dat die pa en ma foute op ooreenstemmende gene sal hê: indien die pa ’n geen met ’n fout het, sal dit baie waarskynlik paar met ’n geen sonder ’n fout by die ma. Dit sal abnormaliteite in die geenpaar verhoed.

God het Adam en Eva geneties perfek geskape, maar na die sondeval het mutasies (DNS kopieerfoute) ingetree. Ná die sondeval was daar nog steeds baie min genetiese foute, dus kon Abraham met sy halfsuster trou (selfs ~1800 vC). Met tyd het genetiese foute vermeerder (kyk Mitochondriese Eva), dus het die waarskynlikheid van foute in ooreenstemmende genetiese inligting vergroot en daarom die kans op abnormaliteite ook. Daarom verhoed God dit in ~1490 vC.

Hierdie is maar slegte nuus vir die mensdom: Mutasies neem heeltyd toe, dus word die kans vir abnormaliteite al hoe groter, selfs al mag jy nie met ’n naby familielid trou nie. Hierdie is ook direk teenstrydig met evolusie wat beweer dat ons heeltyd verbeter (kyk Wat is genetiese entropie?)

Ten slotte: Hierdie vraag mag dalk na ’n probleem lyk vir die Bybelse model, maar evolusioniste sit eintlik met ’n groter probleem. Volgens evolusie word dinge beter, maar as gevolg van die waargeneemde mutasietempo, word ons slegter. Dus moet evolusioniste glo dat dinge op ’n stadium beter geword het en later slegter. Dit is dus teen die beginsel van gelykmatigheid of uniformitarianisme – die teorie dat alle verskynsels verduidelik kan word as ’n resultaat van bestaande kragte wat uniform gewerk het vanaf die begin van die aarde tot nou. Met ander woorde, byvoorbeeld erosietempo’s of mutasietempo’s en ander kragte was altyd konstant en dieselfde as die huidige tempo’s.

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Is die skepping-evolusie kwessie belangrik?

Aangehaal uit CMI Update, Augustus 2009:

Non-Christians often reject Christ’s teaching because “it comes from that book that science (aka evolution) has proved to be riddled with errors!” Yet, the Bible gives us the big picture to understand geology, biology, and anthropology and astronomy – and of course morality and the gospel!

Ateist biologist Richard Dawkins, in one of his infamous attacks on the Christian faith, was quite correct when he said: “It seems to me an odd proposition that we should adhere to some parts of the Bible story but not to others. After all, when it comes to important moral questions, by what standards do we cherry-pick the Bible? Why bother with the Bible at all if we have the ability to pick and choose from it, what is right and what is wrong?”

Bylaag A: 1400 years of inbreeding

A MUST Read . The Mean IQ of Muslim Countries is 81!

For quite some time I have been encouraging my friends that the inclusion of Muslims into any Western society is a very grave and possibly fatal mistake.

This came to me from a Lockheed employee who has had 3 assignments to Saudi Arabia. Worth the read!

During the pilot transition program with the KV-107 and C-130 with Lockheed, we found that most Saudi pilot trainees had very limited night vision, even on the brightest of moonlit nights. Their training retention rate was minimal, including maintenance personnel.

Some had dim memories and had to be constantly reminded of things that were told to them the day before. An American, British or any other western instructor is burned out pretty quickly. It actually took Muslim C-130 pilots years before they could fly in the dark safely and then would be reluctant to leave the lights of a city. Ask any Marine, Air Force or Army guy who’’s been trying to train Iraqis, and especially Afghans.

Islam is not only a religion; it’s a way of life all the way around. Yet another set of revealing facts about Muslim beliefs and traditions and ways of life.

1400 years of inbreeding. I found this to be interesting. Didn’t know whether to believe it or not. To research I went to Wikipedia, “Cousin Marriage”, and far down in the article “Genetics” it seems there is a lot of truth here.

A huge Muslim problem: Inbreeding

Nikolai Sennels is a Danish psychologist who has done extensive research into a little-known problem in the Muslim world: the disastrous results of Muslim inbreeding brought about by the marriage of first cousins.

This practice, which has been prohibited in the Judeo-Christian tradition since the days of Moses, was sanctioned by Muhammad and has been going on now for 50 generations (1,400 years) in the Muslim world. This practice of inbreeding will never go away in the Muslim world, since Muhammad is the ultimate example and authority on all matters, including marriage.

The massive inbreeding in Muslim culture may well have done virtually irreversible damage to the Muslim gene pool, including extensive damage to its intelligence, sanity, and health. According to Sennels, close to half of all Muslims in the world are inbred. In Pakistan, the numbers approachs 70%. Even in England, more than half of Pakistani immigrants are married to their first cousins, and in Denmark the number of inbred Pakistani immigrants is around 40%. The numbers are equally devastating in other important Muslim countries: 67% in Saudi Arabia, 64% in Jordan, and Kuwait, 63% in Sudan, 60% in Iraq, and 54% in the United Arab Emirates and Qatar.

According to the BBC, this Pakistani, Muslim-inspired inbreeding is thought to explain the probability that a British Pakistani family is more than 13 times as likely to have children with recessive genetic disorders. While Pakistanis are responsible for three percent of the births in the UK, they account for 33% of children with genetic birth defects.

The risks of what are called autosomal recessive disorders such as cystic fibrosis, spinal muscular atrophy is 18 times higher, and the risk of death due to malformations is 10 times higher. Other negative consequences of inbreeding include a 100 percent increase in the risk of stillbirths and a 50% increase in the possibility that a child will die during labor.

Lowered intellectual capacity is another devastating consequence of Muslim marriage patterns. According to Sennels, research shows that children of consanguineous marriages lose 10-16 points off their IQ and that social abilities develop much slower in inbred babies. The risk of having an IQ lower than 70, the official demarcation for being classified as “retarded,” increases by an astonishing 400 percent among children of cousin marriages. (Similar effects were seen in the Pharaonic dynasties in ancient Egypt and in the British royal family, where inbreeding was the norm for a significant period of time.)

In Denmark, non-Western immigrants are more than 300 percent more likely to fail the intelligence test required for entrance into the Danish army. Sennels says, “The ability to enjoy and produce knowledge and abstract thinking is simply lower in the Islamic world.” He points out that the Arab world translates just 330 books every year, about 20% of what Greece alone does.

In the last 1,200 years of Islam, just 100,000 books have been translated into Arabic, about what Spain does in a single year. Seven out of 10 Turks have never even read a book. Sennels points out the difficulties this creates for Muslims seeking to succeed in the West. “A lower IQ, together with a religion that denounces critical thinking, surely makes it harder for many Muslims to have success in our high-tech knowledge societies.”

Only nine Muslims have ever won the Nobel Prize, and five of those were for the “Peace Prize.” According to Nature magazine, Muslim countries produce just 10 percent of the world average when it comes to scientific research measured by articles per million inhabitants.

In Denmark, Sennels’ native country, Muslim children are grossly over represented among children with special needs. One-third of the budget for Danish schools is consumed by special education, and anywhere from 51% to 70% of retarded children with physical handicaps in Copenhagen have an immigrant background. Learning ability is severely affected as well. Studies indicated that 64% of schoolchildren with Arabic parents are still illiterate after 10 years in the Danish school system. The immigrant dropout rate in Danish high schools is twice that of the native-born.

Mental illness is also a product. The closer the blood relative, the higher the risk of schizophrenic illness. The increased risk of insanity may explain why more than 40% of patients in Denmark’s biggest ward for clinically insane criminals have an immigrant background. The U.S. is not immune. According to Sennels, “One study based on 300,000 Americans shows that the majority of Muslims in the USA have a lower income, are less educated, and have worse jobs than the population as a whole.”

Sennels concludes: There is no doubt that the wide spread tradition of first cousin marriages among Muslims has harmed the gene pool among Muslims. Because Muslims’ religious beliefs prohibit marrying non-Muslims and thus prevents them from adding fresh genetic material to their population, the genetic damage done to their gene pool since their prophet allowed first cousin marriages 1,400 years ago are most likely massive. This has produced overwhelming direct and indirect human and societal consequences.

Bottom line: Islam is not simply a benign and morally equivalent alternative to the Judeo-Christian tradition. As Sennels points out, the first and biggest victims of Islam are Muslims. Simple Judeo-Christian compassion for Muslims and a common-sense desire to protect Western civilization from the ravages of Islam dictate a vigorous opposition to the spread of this dark and dangerous religion. These stark realities must be taken into account when we establish public polices dealing with immigration from Muslim countries and the building of mosques in the U.S.

Let us hope the civilized West and the North Americans wake up before a blind naiveté about the reality of Islam destroys what remains of our Judeo-Christian culture and our domestic tranquility.

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