Irrespective of whether you are a Christian or not, there are some manuscripts and the Torah provides a glimpse of antediluvian world, which must not be ignored. It was filled with amazing things like people living nearly a thousand years and another group called 'sons of God' taking daughters of men as wives and producing a giant race.
Based on medical research and the description given in the Bible, Goliath of Gath who was defeated by David, might have had hereditary gigantism1. This gives us a clue that a union between a group referred as 'sons of God' and the daughters born to human families resulted in another group called nephilim who had some different phenotypes and gigantism is one of them. Many interpret sons of God as direct creations of God. This union between sons of God and daughters of men giving birth to another group called nephilim and the admixture resulted in present day humans.
After doing some Math on how long back in time will a large compound segment match, I learnt that if Adam & Eve were living just 6000 years back, then it is indeed possible to get a rough count on the number of fallen angels based on mutations among populations. To begin with, we will consider 6000 years as roughly 300 generations, assuming 1 generation is 20 years. We also know that there will be 70 new mutations per generation2 . Hence, for 300 generations, there must be only 21000 mutations for any person from Adam. Hence, the genetic distance between any two humans living today must be 42000 mutations. This is true if Adam was the only common ancestor. However, we don't have just 42000 mutations but much more than that. Any two unrelated humans are ~99.7% identical. This means, there are 0.3% differences, which translates to 2,881,033,286 * 0.3% = 8.64 million mutations. If any two individuals differ by only 42000 mutations if they ever had only 1 ancestor, how many different ancestors would make 8.46 million mutations between any two individuals? The answer is 8.64 million / 42000 = ~206.
Hence, including Adam & Eve, there should have been around 206 total common ancestors before 300 generations. These ~206 other common ancestors could be the fallen angels.
Interestingly, the book of Enoch chapter 4 verse 7-8 specifies the number of fallen angels which counts to 200.
1 Donnelly, Deirdre E., and Patrick J. Morrison. "Hereditary Gigantism-the biblical giant Goliath and his brothers."The Ulster medical journal 83, no. 2 (2014): 86.
2 Keightley, Peter D. "Rates and fitness consequences of new mutations in humans."Genetics 190, no. 2 (2012): 295-304.
Based on medical research and the description given in the Bible, Goliath of Gath who was defeated by David, might have had hereditary gigantism1. This gives us a clue that a union between a group referred as 'sons of God' and the daughters born to human families resulted in another group called nephilim who had some different phenotypes and gigantism is one of them. Many interpret sons of God as direct creations of God. This union between sons of God and daughters of men giving birth to another group called nephilim and the admixture resulted in present day humans.
After doing some Math on how long back in time will a large compound segment match, I learnt that if Adam & Eve were living just 6000 years back, then it is indeed possible to get a rough count on the number of fallen angels based on mutations among populations. To begin with, we will consider 6000 years as roughly 300 generations, assuming 1 generation is 20 years. We also know that there will be 70 new mutations per generation2 . Hence, for 300 generations, there must be only 21000 mutations for any person from Adam. Hence, the genetic distance between any two humans living today must be 42000 mutations. This is true if Adam was the only common ancestor. However, we don't have just 42000 mutations but much more than that. Any two unrelated humans are ~99.7% identical. This means, there are 0.3% differences, which translates to 2,881,033,286 * 0.3% = 8.64 million mutations. If any two individuals differ by only 42000 mutations if they ever had only 1 ancestor, how many different ancestors would make 8.46 million mutations between any two individuals? The answer is 8.64 million / 42000 = ~206.
Hence, including Adam & Eve, there should have been around 206 total common ancestors before 300 generations. These ~206 other common ancestors could be the fallen angels.
Interestingly, the book of Enoch chapter 4 verse 7-8 specifies the number of fallen angels which counts to 200.
And these are the names of their leaders: Sêmîazâz, their leader, Arâkîba, Râmêêl, Kôkabîêl, Tâmîêl, Râmîêl, Dânêl, Êzêqêêl, Barâqîjâl, Asâêl, Armârôs, Batârêl, Anânêl, Zaqîêl, Samsâpêêl, Satarêl, Tûrêl, Jômjâêl, Sariêl. These are their chiefs of tens.Even though the book of Enoch is apocryphal which mentions the number of fallen angels as 200, genetically, the number of founder population distinct to each other including Adam & Eve is ~206.
1 Donnelly, Deirdre E., and Patrick J. Morrison. "Hereditary Gigantism-the biblical giant Goliath and his brothers."The Ulster medical journal 83, no. 2 (2014): 86.
2 Keightley, Peter D. "Rates and fitness consequences of new mutations in humans."Genetics 190, no. 2 (2012): 295-304.