[ExI] Religious Idiocy Triumphs Over Science Yet Again

[William Flynn Wallace]

On Sun, Dec 6, 2015 at 1:35 PM, Tara Maya <tara at taramayastales.com> wrote:

> I believe *all* of us can trace our ancestors to Africa.   ;)
>
> ​Well, yeah, you can wink, but I think this is perfectly correct and so do
lots of scientists.  bill w​


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> Tara Maya
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> On Dec 6, 2015, at 11:06 AM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:
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> *From:* extropy-chat [mailto:extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org
> <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org>] *On Behalf Of *John Clark
> *…*
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> ​> ​
>  They were wiped out by disease and conquest. Not every last one of them,
> especially their children, deserved that.
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>
> ​So I must pay you money because my great great great great great
> grandfather was unjust to your ​great great great great great grandfather?
> John K Clark​
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> AncestryDNA has come to our collective rescue.  The test costs you 100
> bucks, doesn’t hurt (you spit into a test tube, send it in.)  Even the
> whitest among us (perhaps even Elizabeth Warren and Ward Churchill) are
> likely to find at least a trace of Native American in their DNA, which
> immediately makes us immune from guilt over what our other ancestors did or
> didn’t do.  I have a measurable trace of African, which makes me
> universally immune.  I can rightly say I am part NA and part African.  To
> ask how much is an improper question.  (…heeeeeeehehehehehehheheheeeee…)
>
> Side note to anyone reading: I have written software to help interpret DNA
> results.  Anyone who wants to do AncestryDNA, I have a way to
> systematically compare your results to other people.  I have 230 people in
> my database so far.  I can encrypt your results to keep your identity safe.
>
> spike
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