GENETIC EROSION

GENETIC EROSION

 

 

Processes and consequences -

Population bottlenecks create shrinking gene pools, which leave fewer and fewer fertile mating partners. As specimens begin to inbreed, both physical and reproductive congenital effects and defects appear more often. Abnormal sperm increase, infertility rises, and birthrates decline. Most perilous are the effects on the immune defense systems, which become weakened and less and less able to fight off an increasing number of bacterial, viral, fungal, parasitic, and other disease-producing threats. Thus, even if an endangered species in a bottleneck can withstand whatever human development may be eating away at its habitat, it still faces the threat of an epidemic that could be fatal to the entire population.

This genetic decline has been going on since Adam and Eve. Their longevity was for hundreds of years but after the fall the curse that God placed on mankind has been showing the effects of mankind’s departure from God and His righteous acts towards the sin of men. The brains activity and available use has declined to where the average human only uses 10% of our brains, with some people attributing Einstein's brilliance to his ability to stretch that paltry figure to 15 percent. Science today denies this fact. Although man’s Artistic talent of every kind is a divine gift (James 1:17). He by whose "breath the skies became fair" (Job 26:13) also created man with aesthetic faculties which, like all the human faculties, were corrupted in the fall.