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To: <1/1,000,000th%
I don't see anything non-Darwinian here.

Let me explain it to you then.

The discovery that human-specific retroviruses emerged at the same time other researchers believe humans and chimps diverged was startling.

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They found that at least 16 percent of those elements had undergone rearrangements that resulted in large-scale "deletions, duplications, and chromosome reshuffling during the evolution of the human genome."

This is a very big change, something out of nothing, something which changed humans a great deal. It is a large jump totally unexplainable by evolution. These elements clearly did not act jointly and at random to create a new more advanced species. It also disproves the 2% nonsense evolutionists speak about as does the article on 'Monkeys and Men - Gene expression' which shows that the brains of men are much more powerful than those of monkeys by the simple expedient of expressing the genes affecting the brain more than on monkeys. It is hard to believe that such a simple and at the same time such a helpful change would have 'just happened' with men. Certainly such a simple change would have been helpful to almost any species yet it never occurred before. So yes, humans are special.

I've read some of gore3000's links, but I don't see anything non-Darwinian there.

If you have any questions why I consider any of them anti-Darwinian, just ask.

474 posted on 10/14/2002 4:44:10 PM PDT by gore3000
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To: gore3000
You're quote mining again. You didn't even bother to read your own posted article. This reminds me of the time you tried to compare a clay pot full of sulphuric acid to a computer monitor.

You said,

This is a very big change, something out of nothing, something which changed humans a great deal. It is a large jump totally unexplainable by evolution.

A couple paragraphs further in the article, we read.

Finding real evidence for sudden genetic changes, however, has been slow. By using phylogenetic surveys, however, McDonald and King were able to distinguish between the youngest HERVs (human endogenous retroviruses) and more ancient lineages

In other words, further evidence that HERVs evolved from older retroviruses.

And no fair posting more comments before I can work my through this page.

524 posted on 10/14/2002 7:04:29 PM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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