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To: allmendream

Well, I was referring to percent matches of DNA among Crocodillia, Anura, Aves, and a Dinosaur DNA sample found in the 1980s. Anura and Aves were found to be the closest. This was when I was studying biology, but I am no longer in that field, and don’t have access. Incidentally, it was not a study which asserted Birds and Frogs were closely related, but merely charted the percentage of amino acids that various groups had in common with each other. I just happened to notice the very high correlation. This makes looking for it under a subject search very difficult. At the time, I had found other papers which questioned whether modern lissamphibians were even directly descended from stem amphibians at all, so it had grabbed my interest.

I don’t know whether the paper you cite was in part spurred by what I referred to. (Did someone say, “Hey, let’s see if they really ARE so closely related?”) I do notice that their research doesn’t seem to indicate that they measured relations to frogs, or any other amphibians at all. SO what you wrote may either be a later proof that the earlier indications were wrong, or it may be a complete non-sequitur.

In any event, if you read my original posting, my clear intent was to prompt further research into using genetics to establish phylogenies, not to champion young-earth creationism.

(My take on young-earth creationism: If the earth isn’t old, God sure wanted to make it look like it was!)


63 posted on 02/24/2009 8:12:41 AM PST by dangus
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To: dangus
Well, I was referring to percent matches of DNA among Crocodillia, Anura, Aves, and a Dinosaur DNA sample found in the 1980s.

Do you have a link to the finding of dinosaur DNA?

110 posted on 02/24/2009 10:00:27 AM PST by js1138
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To: dangus
In any event, if you read my original posting, my clear intent was to prompt further research into using genetics to establish phylogenies, not to champion young-earth creationism.

That's certainly among the hottest fields of research at the moment. It's clearing up a number of disputed lineages.

111 posted on 02/24/2009 10:04:53 AM PST by js1138
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