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To: Right Wing Professor

>>>Evolution can be reproduced in the laboratory. No scientific theory can be proven; but any scientific theory is testable. Evolution has been tested many, many times, and has held up.<<<

How so?


284 posted on 11/28/2005 1:37:41 PM PST by PhilipFreneau ("The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. " - Psalms 14:1, 53:1)
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To: PhilipFreneau
How so?

Every genome and gene sequence published is a test of evolution.

289 posted on 11/28/2005 1:45:47 PM PST by Right Wing Professor
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To: PhilipFreneau
How so?

Humans and chimps and gorillas share some DNA retroviruses. Show me an endogenous retrovirus that is present in the gorilla and human genome, but not the chimp genome. The theory of evolution predicted that there would be none before the genomes were sequenced (because chimps are more closely related to humans than gorillas are, and matching endogenous retroviruses are inherited from a common ancestor). That prediction was a test of the theory of evolution, which the theory of evolution met, as expected. Prior to the genomic mapping projects creationists predicted that molecular evidence along such lines would falsify evolution. They were wrong, it vindicated it.

311 posted on 11/28/2005 2:15:26 PM PST by Thatcherite (F--ked in the afterlife, bullying feminized androgenous automaton euro-weenie blackguard)
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