Are you related to Obama?

[kygorski]

Kool aid? That study went back a lot further than 2000 years, of course national geographic never tells the truth.Uhhow many dinosauers did noah get on the ark?

[bassin_bug]

A very interesting study several years back, traces all homo sapiens to a place in africa.

I guess people are still doing interesting studies on all sorts of creatures. My interesting studies traces my beginning back to a place in Kuwait named The Garden of Eden. After that it was Lancashire, England and Wales, and now The United States of America.

Did the study you refer to mention anything about homo sapien sapiens?

[bassin_bug]

A very interesting study several years back, traces all homo sapiens to a place in africa.

What PLACE in Africa would that be?

[bassin_bug]

A very interesting study several years back, traces all homo sapiens to a place in africa.

It does not. The words are, "it is believed that the first Homo sapiens were in Africa about 50,000 years ago. Vessels and tools were found in caves and it is thought that they lived in caves near water in order to have a food supply." The words IT IS BELIEVED is open to all kinds of interpretation and wrong information since it gives no clear proof it is true. For instance, if the world was created millions of years ago, could men not have migrated to Africa from other countries as their tribes increased and spread out? Also, part of those people could have been desert nomads from surrounding countries.

[bassin_bug]

Kool aid? That study went back a lot further than 2000 years, of course national geographic never tells the truth.Uhhow many dinosauers did noah get on the ark?

God didn't tell Noah to take only adult animals; He just said take two of each kind. They could have been young or baby dinosauers. They didn't stay on the ark long enough for them to have grown to adult size.

[apb]

Keep drinking the KoolAid

Kygorski is correct. Earlier forms of humans (Homo erectus, for example) spread out of Africa long before modern humans evolved. The earliest modern humans (Homo sapiens) evolved in Africa around 200,000 years ago and migrated out to the rest of the world from there. There is still some debate whether or not early Homo sapiens mated with other related humans (neanderthals for example) or not. Neanderthals were in Europe when modern Homo sapiens arrived there.

Andrew

[apb]

God didn't tell Noah to take only adult animals; He just said take two of each kind. They could have been young or baby dinosauers. They didn't stay on the ark long enough for them to have grown to adult size.

Dinos became extinct something like 65 million years before the first humans appeared. Man never saw a dinosaur. As far as two of each kind, you sure about that? The bible gives the number as 2 and 7 in different places. How do we know which one is correct?

Andrew

[HURRICANEBOB]

NEW YORK, N.Y. - And you thought it was strange to hear that Barack Obama was related to D!ck Cheney. Well, betcha can't guess who he's related to now!

Yup ? the president has family ties to none other than Sarah Palin, according to the genealogists at Ancestry.com, a discovery the family history site made when looking for connections between political foes.

And that's not all ? Obama also is apparently related to radio host and relentless critic Rush Limbaugh. Might you want to reconsider some of your recent comments, Mr. Limbaugh, now that you're apparently family?

A genealogist at the Utah-based Ancestry.com, Anastasia Tyler, said Obama and Palin are 10th cousins through a common ancestor named John Smith, a pastor and early settler in 17th-century Massachusetts. Obama is related to Smith through his mother, as is Palin, Tyler said.

"Smith was against the persecution of the Quakers," Tyler said in an interview. "He was a very socially conscious man."

As for Limbaugh, he's also a 10th cousin of the president ? one time removed ? through a common ancestor named Richmond Terrell, who Tyler said was a large landowner in Virginia, also in the 17th century. "His history is a little more nebulous," Tyler said.

How do the genealogists come up with this stuff? Tyler said they start by picking the people they're interested in, then examine their family trees, going back further and further into history, looking for common surnames and locations.

In the recent project, genealogists looked at the trees of Obama, Palin, and Limbaugh but also a few others, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and Fox pundits Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity. They didn't find anything much with the latter three.

But former president George W. Bush? He's related to BOTH Obama and Palin, the site found. Obama and Bush are 11th cousins through common ancestor Samuel Hinckley, and Bush and Palin are 10th cousins one time removed, also through Hinckley ? who, and stay with us now, was John Smith's father-in-law.

Ancestry.com has revealed in the past that Obama is related to investor Warren Buffett and actor Brad Pitt. It has also found that Palin, the former Alaska governor and Republican vice-presidential candidate, is a distant cousin of both Franklin Roosevelt and Diana, the Princess of Wales.

*The site isn't the only source of this sort of celebrity genealogy information ? in 2007, Cheney's wife, Lynne, discovered ancestral ties between the Republican vice-president and Obama while researching her book. She said the relationship was eighth cousin, though the Chicago Sun-Times traced it as ninth cousins once removed.

And one other thing from Ancestry.com: It also found that Palin is distant cousins with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and conservative author and pundit Ann Coulter, through John Lathrop, who was exiled to the United States from England for being a pastor of an illegal independent church.

Happily for both Obama and Coulter, no doubt, they do not seem to be related.

Yes I am, he's human too.

[HURRICANEBOB]

Trenton, just up the Jersy tunrpike.