Show Notes:

For additional details, see my article Coronaviruses in creation on Creation.com and the video titled Coronavirus I did with Gary Bates. Here’s an audio-only version of that same video.

Specific references are as follows:

Intro Music by Xihcsr

The things we can now learn about ourselves, and our recent history, through ancestry testing are simply amazing. Revisiting the SNP chip used by Ancestry.com and 23andMe.com, 4-grandparent test, amazing geographic specificity, no you do not have thousands of relatives on those ancestry sites, population-level ancestry reduces to statistics, horrors of slavery, the amazing story of Hans Jonathan and the African DNA of Iceland, recreating genetic history of people across the world.

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Dr C explains how to sequence DNA, how to build a genome, and how Ancestry and 23andMe work their magic. Bacterial polymerases do all the work for us, PCR and DNA sequencing, the genome, shotgun sequencing, example: shotgunning the Bible, size of the genome vs a book like the Bible, disaster of the first chimpanzee genome, millions of genomes equals an amazing ability to test ideas of history, Ancestry.com and the SNP chip, ancestry informative markers.

Location: Tiers of Zion, Golden, Colorado

Intro Music by Xihcsr

Old ideas about where babies come from, blending ancestry, Mendel and the neo-Darwinian synthesis, “Darwinism”, maybe proteins confer ancestry, DNA did not look like anything important, discovery that DNA is the source of ancestry in 1952 via the Hershey-Chase experiment, Watson and Crick figure out the double helix structure of DNA which led to our modern genetics and genetic engineering, Shakespeare’s claim about Edward IV, death of King Carlos II and the end of the Spanish Hapsburg, DNA and history.

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