Age of the earth and the race of Jesus
Age of the earth debates from the old-age side are based on linear regressions which are parameter estimates and arguing about whether that’s a fact or not is like arguing about whether the expected value of a portfolio is a fact or not. It’s an absurd thing to claim as truth and argue about since it is a mathematical outcome from a chosen formula.
Genetic ancestor tests DON’T ACTUALLY REVEAL ANCESTRY [1]. This one is a myth that new atheists push about.
…It’s also quite possible for someone who is African American to get ancestry test results that say they’re 75 percent European… [1]
One cannot analyze a bunch of DNA and determine where someone came from a million years ago, and applying DNA results to modern geopolitical borders is snake-oil selling. At best they are correlations only and correlation doesn’t imply causation.
The second one is a favorite of anti-Israel proponents who secretly think the Judeans in the Bible were replaced en-masse at some point in the past with people who looked differently than the modern Isrealis who got that state as a result of Judaism-following ancestors, thus proving that Jesus was ‘browner’ and did not have ‘blue eyes’ [2] because of hithertoo unknown genetic predictive power proving that he would thus side with the PLA in morality questions. King David being said to have had Red hair really puts the lie to that whole browner thing… Hence why genealogies are a waste except as box-checking messiah status.
1. https://now.tufts.edu/articles/pulling-back-curtain-dna-ancestry-tests [archive | wayback]