Posted on 04/13/2005 6:20:23 PM PDT by PatrickHenry
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This stuff is way out of my field of knowledge. I'm surprised to learn that we have one less pair of chromosomes than the apes. I would have thought more pairs would be indicative of further evolutionary advancement.
amazing complexity.
Implying that women don't have this protein?
Blah blah blah, a bunch of big words perpetuating a lie that we evolved from apes.
What's that supposed to mean? I love it when bad logic is portrayed as science. Sure the scientists in question have identified the functions of gene sequences with great precision and skill but, to jump from there to the rest is simply rediculous. Everybody be nice? There's no need to be mean to anyone just for being wrong. It's their God given right :)
PH,
Haven't the evos at FR been assuring us for years that the fusion of the two ape chromosomes was a fact? On at least one recent thread they even had pictures pointing to where the centromere would have been. How can these evo scientists just now be announcing proof of what your team has long assured me HAS ALREADY BEEN PROVEN?
This wouldn't have happened if Bush had OK'd the Kyoto Protocol!
Yeah, but hardly irreducible even in the wildest fantasy, which is why the ID raconteurs don't torture us endlessly about titin. It basically evolved from a series of gene duplications in tandem with the evolution of multicellularity, giving rise to regularly repeating domain patterns.
Blah blah blah, a bunch of big words perpetuating a lie that we evolved from apes.
Yeah, really big words there. Must be all the way up to the 8th grade.
But really, the discovery of a 36,000 base pair sequence is really just a cosmic joke that G-d is playing on us to make us think that evolution happened. At least that is the viewpoint of our creationist "scientists" with their mail order Ph.Ds.
*snicker*
No, I wasn't claiming that it was. What this article says could just as easily be interpreted one way as the other. For instance, if God were designing apes and men, it stands to reason that He would use many of the same materials.
(I'm not saying that's the case, I'm just saying that this doesn't really prove that men evolved from apes. Before Darwin came along, the "great chain of being" that goes back to the ancient Greeks organized the members of the animal and plant kingdoms in much the same way as Darwinists did later. It was understood that there was a hierarchy of complexity, or of lower and higher orders.)
What?!?
Scientists discover we have one fewer chromosome than the apes and then find a large section of one of our chromosomes that looks like it used to be a centromere.
The theory that fusion took place is a good one. It may not be correct, but there is evidence that it is.
It's hardly a ridiculous theory.
Here's an example of a ridiculous theory: the big sky-daddy is testing our faith by planting this genetic evidence.
God would not use materials, he would conjure them. ;^)
He's not trying to "make us think" any such thing. Rather, He made us out of the same protiens because he made us out of the same kinds atoms - which work in the same way. Why do some people make things so complicated?
Funny that false evidence trail (a pseudo-centromere sequence) would be there if humans and apes are separately created. It's as if someone wanted to fake a chromosome fusion event in the history of humans. </creo-mode>
Genesis says otherwise...
Creationism is knowing when not to look.
I don't think anything can be proved in science. There are only theories that best fit the evidence.
What's interesting about this, though, is that science predicted fusion, and lo, here we have more evidence for it.
It really is too bad, though, that there isn't some book somewhere that already contains all the answers. Instead, scientists have to constantly check their theories and do research.
Hmmmm.. I see an awful lot of "let there be"s in my version of Genesis....
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