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To: SeekAndFind
"When mice, men and chimpanzees all turn out to be made of almost identical genetic material, the unknown factor which determines why the same building blocks should give rise to such an astonishing variety of different life-forms leaves the Darwinian thesis as full of holes as ever."

It is astonishing how people will view the same evidence and reach diametrically opposed opinions about it.

The "almost identical genetic material" described above is precisely what Darwin was discussing in suggesting that minute changes in it would have dramatic effects. They do.

27 posted on 02/22/2009 9:16:01 PM PST by NicknamedBob ("Let me entertain you. Let me make you ..." well, smile isn't quite the right word, is it?)
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To: NicknamedBob
Now,now ~ Darwin didn't know beans about "genetic material" ~ he did not, in fact, have a clue. They were still figuring out the stuff about sperm and eggs in his day and weren't all that clear on it.

He spoke of "changes" not of "identical genetic material".

I think it is a very serious error to impute scientific knowledge to Darwin that he couldn't have had at that time.

Moslems do this to the point of distraction. They find a word in the Koran and then posit various scientific fields on top of it and ultimately credit that development to Mohammad.

38 posted on 02/23/2009 6:21:41 AM PST by muawiyah
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