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To: b_sharp; lilylangtree

I don't believe a word of it. I think llt made it up.


124 posted on 07/23/2006 1:45:13 PM PDT by stands2reason (ANAGRAM for the day: Socialist twaddle == Tact is disallowed)
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To: stands2reason; lilylangtree
"I don't believe a word of it. I think llt made it up."

This is just an example of the twisting and shouting anti-evolutionists perform when spreading their propaganda.

I suspect that lilylangtree read about the putative ~35,000,000 single nucleotide differences between the chimp genome and our genome. For some reason she looks at each nucleotide as a separate reason to doubt that humans and chimps share a common ancestor. I guess she figures that humans and chimps did not diverge equally from the common ancestor nor that some of those differences would have been from multi-point mutations such as gene duplication. In any case she seems more than willing to accept numbers from questionable sources without thinking.

Chimp/Human ancestor DNA segment:
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Current Chimp DNA same locus.
AAAAAGGGAAAAAAA (single 3 nucleotide mutation event)

Current Homo DNA at same locus.
AAAATAAACAAAAAA (two single nucleotide mutation events)

Creationist view: 5 reasons to doubt common ancestry.

Relationship view: (Useful when comparing multiple extant species) Variance of 3 mutations between species.

Common descent view: Humans vary from the common ancestor by 2 mutation events. Chimps vary from the common ancestor by 1 mutation event.

162 posted on 07/23/2006 2:14:16 PM PDT by b_sharp (Why bother with a tagline? Even they eventually wear out! (Second Law of Taglines))
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