[ExI] Religious Idiocy Triumphs Over Science Yet Again

[spike]

>>... Um, yeah, that's not the only way (or even the most likely way) it could happen, Tara. Think  about it (or ask Spike).
> 
> Ben Zaiboc

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>...Implying…?

>...My innocent little mind fails to grasp how it could have happened.

>...Tara Maya



Tara one of your ancestors could have been a wartime rape victim.  They might not have any description of the perp, if for instance there were several of them, or the victim was unconscious at the time, or blindfolded, or if it was dark, etc.  The way it would come out is that you would have several cousins on your list with an ancestry utterly unexplainable, tracing to regions of the globe no one ever heard of.

As for Native American, stand by on that.  AncestryDNA is constantly refining that.  There was a Cherokee war chief in the 1700s who was said to have had several hundred children (that sounds doubtful) and some partially reliable rumor has it that he was part European.  That is recent enough that his descendants would show up as cousins to the descendants of whoever was that guy's grandfather.

There are over a million proles in AncestryDNA now, and it is growing at than 1% per week.  It's hard to say what all we will discover.

spike