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To: ret_medic; PatrickHenry
There is no such thing as "junk" DNA,

Sure there is. For example, humans and other primates have broken copies of the genes that, in other animals, produce vitamin C so that they don't suffer if they don't have sufficient amounts in their diet.

Try to learn something about biology before you spew more false propaganda about it, please.

and the monkey thing has recently been "junked" as well.

Wow, you've been reading a lot of creationist pamphlets, I see. Sorry, but you're just spewing crap.

Junk DNA is DNA so called "scientists" don't know what it is for. Every few months somebody figures out what some "junk" does. There was some fairly extensive news about that recently, I can't remember which lab cracked those strings.

Please, stop spewing creationist propaganda as if it was actually true. It's not, and even your lame claims here reveal a gross misunderstanding of the actual research.

It tosses that evolution theory of redundant DNA out the window.

Wrong again, especially since junk DNA is not synonymous with "redundant" DNA, as you incorrectly presume here. Try learning the subject first.

The monkey DNA thing was also in the news recently. So, I would update my 'he's my brother' theory if I were you. I think it's gone from the 98% same to 98% different.

COMPLETELY AND ONE HUNDRED PERCENT INCORRECT. Please stop posting your wild fantasies as if they were fact. Please learn something about the topic before you parrot propaganda. Stop acting like a brain-dead Michael Moore fan.

Ah, here it is: You Can't Make a Monkey Out of Us Chimpanzees seem almost human, and scientists have maintained for decades that chimps are, in fact, 98.5 percent genetically identical to humans. But the results of a new study call that figure into question, with a finding that there are actually large chunks of the human and chimp genomes that are vastly different.

Nothing in this article actually supports the crap you've spewed. I'm sorry you're not able to understand what it actually says.

Researchers at a company called Perlegen Sciences in Mountain View, California, used a powerful biological computer chip that can scan the entire genetic makeup of an organism, that is, its whole genome. The results, published in Monday's issue of Genome Research, show that chimps and humans are much more different than scientists previously thought.

Yes, but not in the ways you mistakenly presume it means, and not in ways that invalidate evolutionary biology.

If you don't understand the subject, you'd be better off not making a fool of yourself.

'Junk' DNA not junk but key to complexity http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/health/HealthRepublish_1103805.htm Not what I was looking for, there is a newer break, But it hits on it. Not good news for some here.

Yes, and those "some" whom it is "not good new for" is the creationists. The article provides additional support for evolution. Did you not bother to read it, or did you just fail to understand it?

"He's not my brother, he's my Monkey." (there is a song that goes with that ("he's not heavy he's my brother")

I think you skipped a step:


385 posted on 10/04/2005 2:26:04 AM PDT by Ichneumon
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To: Ichneumon
I had forgotten all about that website. Now I'll have to add that flowchart to The List-O-Links.
393 posted on 10/04/2005 4:02:14 AM PDT by PatrickHenry (Disclaimer -- this information may be legally false in Kansas.)
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To: Ichneumon
I just re-discovered that in the "Additional Information" section of The List-O-Links I've already got a link that leads to your flow-chart:

Humour. The laughable side of creationism.

405 posted on 10/04/2005 7:03:48 AM PDT by PatrickHenry (Disclaimer -- this information may be legally false in Kansas.)
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To: Ichneumon
You found their playbook! Must have been tough, pretending to be a brainwashed cretin to get into the seminar for the handout materials. Or did you just go through the dumpster behind Discovery Institute HQ in Seattle?
412 posted on 10/04/2005 7:31:15 AM PDT by VadeRetro (Liberalism is a cancer on society. Creationism is a cancer on conservatism.)
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