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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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To: b_sharp

Ah, yes, according to the article The chip genome "led to literally too many questions; there were 35 million differences between us and chimpanzees--that's too much to figure out," Jonathan Rothberg, 454's chairman (454 Life Sciences Corp of Branford, CT). Further, the article points out "There are no firm answers yet about how humans picked up key traits such as walking upright and developing complex language."

Yet, humanity is expected to believe that we descended from apes. Believe what you like, but when even scientists can't answer the questions on evolution, however they're using up lots of time and effort and money to try to explain it, it appears that evolution IS NOT the answer.


622 posted on 07/25/2006 8:09:12 AM PDT by lilylangtree
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