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Mike
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posted 6/8/10 12:44 AM
I'm just about sick to death of fools like you, who use DNA to disavow the English of their Anglo-Saxon roots. DNA cannot prove ethnicity because human DNA is human DNA. I doubt if you'd bet your life, or the life of a loved one, on DNA being definite proof of the bilge you spout about the Anglo-Saxons having little impact. Perhaps you can explain why Wales is named Wales - a word that is derived from an Old English (Anglo-Saxon) word, meaning 'foriegner'. If the Anglo-Saxons had little impact then why does 'Wales' exist? Why are we speaking English?? Why is there a country called England, with the majority of English place-names having an Old English root??? Of course you don't want to admit to the Anglo-Saxons being a majority. After all, you're Welsh, and you'll use your Phd to impress the gullible. DNA proves sod all, certainly not ethnicity. How many times have we heard of recent police cases that have had difficulty in determining the DNA of a victim because of the degradation of the DNA samples? The mind boggles on how you can use DNA samples from ancient remains to determine the origins of those people, given that they have been degrading for well over a thousand years, along with the contamination they have suffered. And you have no problem with using this dubious 'evidence' to prove your theory about the origins of the English. Well there's a surprise - though perhaps not, given that you're Welsh and therefore you want to prove some myth about a Celtic majority - whoever they were. Can you say that DNA is a definite science that is irrefutable in its findings? No you can't, and neither can you name one genetic study that would hold up in a court of law as definite proof in regards to your theories of the results of ancient DNA samples. Still, you keep trying to convince the gullible, Welshman.
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