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To: gore3000
And you have not been able to refute those statements even though they are over six months old.

They were refuted about 8.4 minutes after you posted them.

Here is a list of laureates for the Nobel Prize in Medicine.
Here is a list of the laureates for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Since all of their discoveries conclusively falsify evolution, it should be easy for you to pick your favorite one and tell us how.

2,048 posted on 01/01/2003 8:37:04 PM PST by Condorman
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To: Condorman
And isn't it odd that Nobel Prizes are awarded for papers published in peer-reviewed journals?

I haven't seen that kind of delightful irony since Congress lectured those corporate execs on fiscal responsibility.
2,059 posted on 01/01/2003 8:59:15 PM PST by Condorman
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To: Condorman
They were refuted about 8.4 minutes after you posted them.

A lie, that is why you and your friends do not post the refutation.

Since all of their discoveries conclusively falsify evolution, it should be easy for you to pick your favorite one and tell us how.

As I said, you guys are too lame to do your own work. Here's one which is very important because evolutionists claim this discovery proves evolution when actually it disproves it:

The fly with the extra pair of wings

Already at the beginning of this century geneticists had noted occasional malformations in Drosophila. In one type of mutation the organ that controls balance (the halteres), was transformed into an extra pair of wings (Fig. 2). In this type of bizarre disturbance of the body plan, cells in one region behave as though they were located in another. The Greek word homeosis was used to describe this type of malformations and the mutations were referred to as homeotic mutations.





Fig. 2. Comparison of a normal and a four-winged fruit fly. The third thoractic segment has developed as a duplicate of the second due to a defectic homeotic gene. In the normal fly only the second segment develops wings.

The fly with the extra pair of wings interested Edward B. Lewis at the California Institute of Technology in Los Angeles. He had, since the beginning of the forties, been trying to analyze the genetic basis for homeotic transformations. Lewis found that the extra pair of wings was due to a duplication of an entire body segment. The mutated genes responsible for this phenomenon were found to be members of a gene family ( bithorax-complex) that controls segmentation along the anterior-posterior body axis (Fig. 3). Genes at the beginning of the complex controlled anterior body segments while genes further down the genetic map controlled more posterior body segments (the colinearity principle). Furthermore, he found that the regions controlled by the individual genes overlapped, and that several genes interacted in a complex manner to specify the development of individual body segments. The fly with the four wings was due to inactivity of the first gene of the bithorax complex in a segment that normally would have produced the halteres, the balancing organ of the fly (Fig 3). This caused other homeotic genes to respecify this particular segment into one that forms wings.
From: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1995 .

Evolutionists use this discovery to claim that a mutation can benefit a species. What this proves though is that a mutation severely handicaps a species. Yes, the mutation gives the fly a second pair of wings. However, it gains it at the cost of the hateres which are the stabilizers for the fly when it is in flight. The 2nd pair of wings is totally useless because it does not have the support system necessary to make use of them whereas the normal non-mutated fly has the complete system for the stabilizing hateres and can make good use of it. What this proves is that a single mutation cannot be beneficial becuase you need a support system for any new ability and this would require many mutations - in exactly the right places to be achieved. This is exactly what Intelligent Design says must happen. It should also be noted that a problem along the developmental program has a cascading effect on the rest of the development of an organism.

2,085 posted on 01/01/2003 9:58:31 PM PST by gore3000
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