Posted by:
MarkJ
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Date: January 13, 2017 11:28AM
I have a natural interest in history, and my mild interest in genealogy probably stems from that basic interest. The more familiar I become with the practice of genealogy though, the more aware I am of the limitations of historical records.
For example, DNA from a skull that could possibly be that of Mozart was compared to the DNA that came from skeletal remains from a known Mozart family burial plot. The results? None of the remains were close biological matches to any of the others. In spite of what the records say, there was no shared biological connection among those individuals.
Humans are simply too unpredictable and way too promiscuous to say with any certainty, based only on written records, that a particular paper trail represents the reality of human reproduction.
I recently sent in my DNA for testing and am waiting for the results on the trail of my biological foreparents. I hope there are surprises in store, but regardless, we are all one family. A religion that is built on identifying and promoting particular bloodlines is not only on shaky moral and religious grounds, but on completely fraudulent grounds in terms of biology as well.