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To: Boxsford
Molecular biology: There is no evolutionary patterns in the sequence of amino acids of common proteins.

This is completely false.

I taught a course last semester on the chemical basis of evolution. Students who took it were mostly freshmen and sophomores, and knew very little about molecular biology. The final project was to select one of the ribosomal proteins (randomly), download 20 or so sequences from the NCBI database, use some software construct a tree, and compare the tree with the standard evolutionary model. Would you believe that every single tree corroborated the standard model?

A couple of the students also found pseudogenes in the human genome and integrated those pseudogenes into their tree. Evolution gives an explanation why we have pseudogenes. But why would a creator/intelligent designer put them in there?

81 posted on 01/29/2004 8:36:36 AM PST by Right Wing Professor
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To: Right Wing Professor
I can't even say here what Neal Boortz is saying on the air about Georgia and its schools. I would be accused of bashing. But I do believe he used the "T" word (thumpers).
83 posted on 01/29/2004 8:40:18 AM PST by js1138
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