At 11:52 AM -0600 1/29/06, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> From Adan to Shoghi Effendi, there is a continuous blood line,
that is why I ask about the importance of "spiritual genes".
Dear Hasan,
It is not a blood line that can really be traced historically. Give a
few hundred years and everyone is related to everyone else anyhow.
If all the descendants of a couple marry and have 2 children, after
35 generations you have 2 to the power of 35 descendants or about 35
billion. That's why every white guy in the world, and many
non-whites, can trace their family tree back to Charlemagne.
A couple things complicate this -
Rejecting matrilineal descendants,
Marrying cousins.
Don C
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