Re: Generational Math

2004-01-06 Thread Kevin Graeme
al Message - From: "John Stanley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2004 4:31 PM Subject: RE: Generational Math > Yeah, I've also seen where people have been cautiously warning others about > some LDS (mo

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2004-01-06 Thread John Stanley
Yeah, I've also seen where people have been cautiously warning others about some LDS (mormon) research. I did not ask why, and assumed it was because maybe some people were inflating their heritage or making tenouous connections at best. Me, I dont care who I am descended from, just want to kno

RE: Generational Math

2004-01-06 Thread John Stanley
Well, from about 1700 and back I am skeptical anyway no matter what the source. But the ancestor of mine that this started with is from several pretty well documented sources. One is a book my family published in 1926 that lists her, and some specific information about her. Then this information

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2004-01-06 Thread Simon Horwith
I don't know much about tracing family lineage, but I wrote some sprite class algorithms in a past life... very interesting stuff, reproduction and life-cycle mathematics. ~Simon Simon Horwith CTO, Etrilogy Ltd. Member of Team Macromedia Macromedia Certified Instructor Certified Advanced ColdFusio

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2004-01-06 Thread Marlon Moyer
>From: "Eric Dawson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 11:52 PM >Subject: Re: Generational Math > > >   > >>I think inbreeding can draw from the extremes of genetics. >> &

Re: Generational Math

2004-01-06 Thread Kevin Graeme
e a genetics-only problem. While the minimum genetic number might be around 50, the sociological minimum appears to be much higher. -Kevin - Original Message - From: "Eric Dawson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, Janu

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2004-01-06 Thread John Stanley
Me and 100 hot chicks..not saying the genetic lines would be pure, but damn, I'd be having fun. -Original Message- From: Eric Dawson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2004 12:52 AM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: Generational Math I think inbreeding can draw

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2004-01-05 Thread Eric Dawson
I think inbreeding can draw from the extremes of genetics. ??? how would you populate Mars? How many couples? Eric   - Original Message -   From: Kevin Graeme   To: CF-Community   Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 4:29 PM   Subject: Re: Generational Math   Hobbits, midgets, whatever

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2004-01-05 Thread Larry C. Lyons
A few years back there was an interesting study that managed to trace humanity back to a very small group (or a single female) about a million years ago in eastern Africa based on mitochondrial DNA analysis. That study is one of the stronger pieces of evidence for the Out of Africa hypothesis o

Re: Generational Math

2004-01-05 Thread Kevin Graeme
Hobbits, midgets, whatever. -Kevin - Original Message - From: "Philip Arnold" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 4:16 PM Subject: RE: Generational Math > > Don't forget the verse in Genesi

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2004-01-05 Thread Philip Arnold
> Don't forget the verse in Genesis that says"  "And there were > giants in the land."   Seems like there were some critters to > marry up with and produce progeny Since inter-speciec breeding would have given some of the traits of both species, maybe the original Humans were only about 3 feet tal

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2004-01-05 Thread Doug White
; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 3:52 PM Subject: RE: Generational Math : > You're thinking that they had to lay with their mother.  Adam : > and Eve had children over the course of about 900 years, and : > these children also had children.  It was more likely it

Re: Generational Math

2004-01-05 Thread Charlie Griefer
d waits for the theological stuff to pass.   - Original Message -   From: Philip Arnold   To: CF-Community   Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 2:52 PM   Subject: RE: Generational Math   > You're thinking that they had to lay with their mother.  Adam   > and Eve had children ov

Re: Generational Math

2004-01-05 Thread Deanna Schneider
Um, no thanks. :) - Original Message - From: "Ian Skinner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 3:23 PM Subject: RE: Generational Math > Google it, there are many, many such sites

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2004-01-05 Thread Philip Arnold
> You're thinking that they had to lay with their mother.  Adam > and Eve had children over the course of about 900 years, and > these children also had children.  It was more likely it was > brother-sister or uncle-niece rather than son-mother.  It > also says that Cain had a wife, so it could not

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2004-01-05 Thread Ian Skinner
: CF-Community Subject: Re: Generational Math Hm...a website devoted to kissing cousinskinda spooky. - Original Message - From: "Ian Skinner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 3:05 PM Subject: RE: G

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2004-01-05 Thread Deanna Schneider
Hm...a website devoted to kissing cousinskinda spooky. - Original Message - From: "Ian Skinner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 3:05 PM Subject: RE: Generational Math > Just to stir the pot

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2004-01-05 Thread Kevin Graeme
quot;CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 3:05 PM Subject: RE: Generational Math > Just to stir the pot, 5th cousins are not incest by any measurement I've > ever heard of.  You can actually legally marry your 1st cousin in the US. > Interes

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2004-01-05 Thread Matthew Small
er   To: CF-Community   Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 4:05 PM   Subject: RE: Generational Math   Just to stir the pot, 5th cousins are not incest by any measurement I've   ever heard of.  You can actually legally marry your 1st cousin in the US.   Interestingly, you can only do the ceremony in

Re: Generational Math

2004-01-05 Thread Matthew Small
have been Eve since she was already Adam's wife. That would have made Cain a Mother-er. - Matt Small   - Original Message -   From: Dan Phillips   To: CF-Community   Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 4:05 PM   Subject: RE: Generational Math   That's something I've alw

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2004-01-05 Thread Ian Skinner
ll [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 1:04 PM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: Generational Math I gotta tell ya... My family has been in this area for a long time (South Carolina - Myrtle Beach, Conway), and we have many kinships over the place.  I haven't lived here all of

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2004-01-05 Thread Schuster, Steven
With a little Holy intervention baby! But the Muslims, Jews and Christians all hold to it...so it must be true right? -Original Message- From: Philip Arnold [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 4:00 PM To: CF-Community Subject: RE: Generational Math

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2004-01-05 Thread Dan Phillips
4:00 PM To: CF-Community Subject: RE: Generational Math > Actually, Adam and Eve had many offspring. > > Genesis 5:3 So it was Brother/Sister lovin' then?   _ [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]

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2004-01-05 Thread Philip Arnold
> Actually, Adam and Eve had many offspring. > > Genesis 5:3 So it was Brother/Sister lovin' then? [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]

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2004-01-05 Thread Matthew Small
Actually, Adam and Eve had many offspring. Genesis 5:3 - Matt Small   - Original Message -   From: Philip Arnold   To: CF-Community   Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 3:53 PM   Subject: RE: Generational Math   It all comes down to the old "12 degrees of separation" thing

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2004-01-05 Thread Matthew Small
Like we need incest in South Carolina. - Matt Small   - Original Message -   From: Ian Skinner   To: CF-Community   Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 3:44 PM   Subject: RE: Generational Math   Depends on how you look at it.  First of all, yes the farther you go back,   the more "co

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2004-01-05 Thread Philip Arnold
It all comes down to the old "12 degrees of separation" thing, but to a different extent Just think about it this way... IF the Bible is correct, then; We're descended from 2 people originally (Adam and Eve), plus they must have in-bred their own children with Eve (they only had sons, right?) Nex

RE: Generational Math

2004-01-05 Thread Ian Skinner
grammer BloodSource www.BloodSource.org Sacramento, CA -Original Message- From: John Stanley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 12:34 PM To: CF-Community Subject: RE: Generational Math So there must have been a ton of interfamily breeding back in the day, espe

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2004-01-05 Thread Kevin Graeme
think it's probably a mythological simplification of a complicated scientific concept. -Kevin - Original Message - From: "John Stanley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 2:35 PM Subject: RE: Generational

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2004-01-05 Thread John Stanley
Maybe I wouldn't have these gills or these flippers either..oh wait that's my "Innsmouth" heritage coming out. -Original Message- From: Andre Turrettini [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 3:38 PM To: CF-Community Subject: RE: Generational Ma

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2004-01-05 Thread Charlie Griefer
go back far enough and eventually we're all offspring of a brother and sister couple from Arkansas.   - Original Message -   From: Ian Skinner   To: CF-Community   Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 1:29 PM   Subject: RE: Generational Math   You are correct, if you go back far enou

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2004-01-05 Thread Andre Turrettini
Just imagine how much better at programming coldfusion you could have been without all that inbreeding!! -Original Message- From: John Stanley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 1:34 PM To: CF-Community Subject: RE: Generational Math So there must have been a ton

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2004-01-05 Thread Ben Doom
There was a neat article spoofing a scientific one based on this.  It was called "The population implosion" or something similar. I'm not even going to try the math, though.  :-) --benD John Stanley wrote: > Okay doing family history research which by the way can be seen at > http://www.netcon

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2004-01-05 Thread John Stanley
Confession: I did not know who Methuselah was, so I had to look him up. Does that make me a bad person? ;-) -Original Message- From: Kevin Graeme [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 3:23 PM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: Generational Math I blame Methuselah. -Kevin

RE: Generational Math

2004-01-05 Thread John Stanley
Message- From: Ian Skinner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 3:29 PM To: CF-Community Subject: RE: Generational Math You are correct, if you go back far enough we are all related to one another one way or another.  What will happen is that the farther back you go, you will

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2004-01-05 Thread Ian Skinner
You are correct, if you go back far enough we are all related to one another one way or another.  What will happen is that the farther back you go, you will conceivable have that same ancestor appearing in two or more lines.  A simple example, that does happen.  If you have a pair of second cousins

Re: Generational Math

2004-01-05 Thread Kevin Graeme
I blame Methuselah. -Kevin - Original Message - From: "John Stanley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 2:07 PM Subject: Generational Math > Okay doing family history research which by the way can be seen at > http://www.netconcepti