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To: wendy1946; muawiyah; SunkenCiv; blam; All

Evolution is far more complicated and sophisticated than you make out. For one thing there are genes that evolved over 1/2 billion years ago that are still in use today. Their outward appearance may change, but fundamentals are conserved, modified and reused. For example, the segmented earthworm, the segmented insect, the segmented spinal cord are all of a piece. In an interesting experiment, eye cells of a mouse were placed in the legs of fruit flies, and the mouse implants developed as compound insect eye tissue. How is that for amazing. Try reading Sean Carrol’s book Endless Forms Most Beautiful, which explains this process in endless fascinating detail.

If you are still not convinced, at least you will have the newest information to do your arguing against, rather than the dated ideas you are currently struggling with.


112 posted on 05/13/2011 12:20:46 AM PDT by gleeaikin
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To: gleeaikin
Evolution is far more complicated and sophisticated than you make out. For one thing there are genes that evolved over 1/2 billion years ago that are still in use today.

You think you're not going to get called for bullshit like that on this forum??

The PLANET is not that old. Robert Bass once redid Lord Kelbin's heat equations for the planet WITH a maximal figure for radioactive elements included and came up with an upper bound of around 220M years. That's before you even get to the recent finds of raw meat and blood in tyrannosaur remains which are supposedly 70M years old, i.e. which are proclaimed to be 70M years old by the same people telling you that anything on this planet is .5B years old.....


115 posted on 05/13/2011 2:29:28 AM PDT by wendy1946
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