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To: Phantasy
That would be factually incorrect, as there is a difference between micro and macro evolution.

Please read Variation, information and the created kind by Dr. Carl Wieland.

He states, "All observed biological changes involve only conservation or decay of the underlying genetic information. Thus we do not observe any sort of evolution in the sense in which the word is generally understood. For reasons of logic, practicality and strategy, it is suggested that we:

Avoid the use of the term ‘microevolution’.

Rethink our use of the whole concept of ‘variation within kind’.

Avoid taxonomic definitions of the created kind in favour of one which is overtly axiomatic."

111 posted on 10/28/2005 5:22:44 PM PDT by Tamar1973 (Palestine is the cancer; Israel is the cure!)
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To: Tamar1973
"He states, "All observed biological changes involve only conservation or decay of the underlying genetic information. Thus we do not observe any sort of evolution in the sense in which the word is generally understood."

The use of the term 'genetic information' is simply a reification of a visualization technique to enhance understanding.

Strange he did not mention gene duplication or chromosome duplication, both increase the size of the coding and highly conserved non-coding genome.

His use of 'generally understood' is more properly stated as 'generally understood by creationists'.

154 posted on 10/28/2005 7:49:15 PM PDT by b_sharp (The DI is the Keystone Corps(e))
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