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To: RightWingNilla
Haven't you taken any molecular genetics?

Plenty - my degree was in molecular biology, and the science of human disease is basically problems at the biochemical/molecular level of cells. I don't have to believe in evolution as a means of origins to understand any of this.

285 posted on 01/30/2004 10:42:13 AM PST by realpatriot71 (It's time to build a freakin' wall!)
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To: realpatriot71
Plenty - my degree was in molecular biology, and the science of human disease is basically problems at the biochemical/molecular level of cells. I don't have to believe in evolution as a means of origins to understand any of this.

I am stunned really. A major problem facing medicine is antibiotic resistance. Some bugs have acquired not only beneficial mutations but have evolved entire systems to evade certain drugs. Ever learn about vancomycin resistance? Please do not become one of these doctors that perscribes penicillin for the flu.

Furthermore, if you have had any experience with DNA sequence alignment and homology search programs you probably have noticed that nucleotide sequences of "ancient" genes (rRNAs, cytochromes etc) diverge exactly as evolutionary theory would predict. Is it all a huge coincidence? Can a reasonable person examine all of this data and not conclude common ancestry? What other hypothesis could possibly explain this?

310 posted on 01/30/2004 12:05:09 PM PST by RightWingNilla
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