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To: PatrickHenry
A minor quibble in the summation:

"Consider the example that Ken Miller gave. Evolutionary biologists were confronted with the fact that we have two fewer chromosomes than chimpanzees, the creatures hypothesized to be our closest living ancestors based on molecular evidence and homologies."
[emphasis added]

I assume he meant to say "closest living relatives with an ancestor in common with man" ... nobody thinks chimps were our ancestors.

127 posted on 11/06/2005 6:13:45 PM PST by longshadow
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To: longshadow

Yeah, but all in all, he did quite well for someone who isn't a biologist.


128 posted on 11/06/2005 6:20:03 PM PST by PatrickHenry (Reality is a harsh mistress. No rationality, no mercy)
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To: longshadow
I assume he meant to say "closest living relatives with an ancestor in common with man" ... nobody thinks chimps were our ancestors.

Don't tell anybody, but that last common ancestor of humans and chimps would have looked a heck of a lot more like a chimp than like us.

129 posted on 11/06/2005 6:23:19 PM PST by VadeRetro (Liberalism is a cancer on society. Creationism is a cancer on conservatism.)
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