# Hardin: Genealogy, Genetics, and the Power of Words

**URL:** https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/hardin-genealogy-genetics-and-the-power-of-words/9990
**Category:** Side Conversation
**Tags:** Adam, Science
**Created:** [March 23, 2020, 3:45pm UTC](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/hardin-genealogy-genetics-and-the-power-of-words/9990 "2020-03-23T15:45:42Z")
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### Author: ![swamidass](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.peacefulscience.org/swamidass/32/3_2.png) [@swamidass](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/u/swamidass)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2020, 3:57pm UTC](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/hardin-genealogy-genetics-and-the-power-of-words/9990/2 "2020-03-23T15:57:17Z")

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@dga471, you were mentioned here:

> However, if one’s hermeneutical and theological commitments seem to require a recent, _de novo_ created A&E who are UGAs, then one’s demand for positive evidence may become less important and one’s tolerance for low probability events that have not been disproven increases.[xxi] Physics graduate student Daniel Ang, a moderator on the Peaceful Science forum, [encapsulates](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/jay-johnson-the-question-of-tasmania/8674) this essential difference in _GAE’s_ approach well, and I refer interested readers to his discussion.

Though, I would point out the error in the quote that @dga471 uses (from another author, not @dga471 ):

> > Swamidass brushes aside Tasmania’s isolation as unreasonable and impossible to demonstrate.

That is not true. I explained that concluding Tasmania was isolated is **reasonable** , not unreasonable, but that concluding that it was not isolated is reasonable too, because the evidence is not definitive.

> **[How does the isolation of Tasmania impact recent universal ancestry?](https://peacefulscience.org/articles/isolation-tasmania/)**
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> The question of Tasmania pulls us deeper into science, wondering together about what we know and the limits of our knowledge. Let the conversation grow.

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