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To: gore3000
They way andrewc has been gathering these numbers is the same way that evolutionists in numerous articles have been SELECTIVELY gathering numbers to support evolution - by using the blast program on particular genes of different species. So if this method is wrong then you must also state that the evidence put out by evolutionists is false.

Andrew C has been examining the raw data in a highly technical field, and in terms of counting genomic changes was doing better than I was. There is nothing wrong with what he's been doing; it just so happens that one of the two human (and ape) proteins he's been looking at is on the y chromosome. Even you, surely, must appreciate that a functional gene for the most fundamental part of the protein synthetic apparatus cannot be on the y chromosome, since women make proteins the same way men do.

723 posted on 03/17/2003 8:46:23 AM PST by Right Wing Professor
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To: Right Wing Professor
Even you, surely, must appreciate that a functional gene for the most fundamental part of the protein synthetic apparatus cannot be on the y chromosome, since women make proteins the same way men do.

Have not been following the discussion all the way so I am not sure if andrewc made that claim. Neertheless, it does not vitiate from the central point of his argument - that the number of mutations between species does not agree with the evolutionary 'tree of life'. In fact, it makes his case stronger because evolutionists do not have the excuse of saying that it would destroy functioning to change the gene and thus mutations are restricted in such a gene. In fact, evolutionists often claim that the best places to find mutations is where there is no function (or no important function) for the genes involved. So I really do not see how this (if your assertion above is correct) in any way contradicts andrew's point.

1,036 posted on 03/19/2003 8:33:44 PM PST by gore3000
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