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To: allmendream

Are you trying to claim that any Y chromosome differences can be accommodated in an ape-human evolution scenario? Why did one researcher characterize the result as “astounding”? Maybe you ought to let him know about it.

If you want to start using the Bible, you cannot believe in evolution without doing violence to Genesis.


73 posted on 08/05/2010 8:39:04 PM PDT by lasereye
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To: lasereye
You mean the ONE WORD they had from an actual scientist in that entire mess? “Astounding” doesn't mean that evolution isn't true and that it all poofed into existence within the last couple of thousand years.

The vast majority of Christian faiths have no problem with the acceptance of evolution. The violence you are doing is to our faith, the intellect, and the reality that God created.

Evolution is the inevitable consequence of imperfect replication and selective pressure and time. The observed rate of evolution is not only sufficient to explain the divergence in DNA between humans and apes, there is much more than enough, as selection eliminates many variations.

The rate of Y chromosome evolution is much higher than the rest of the genome, and if most creationists knew any actual science, they would know that - but usually they don't.

The more educated someone is the less likely they are to be a creationist. Especially if they are educated in science. Creationists sources are aware of this and play to their audience.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090716201127.htm

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20551442

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16299764

“The absence of homologous recombination between the X and the Y chromosome leads to gradual degeneration of various Y chromosome genes on an evolutionary timescale. The absence of recombination, however, also favors the accumulation of transposable elements on the Y chromosome during its evolution, as seen with both Drosophila and mammalian Y chromosomes. Alongside these processes, the acquisition and amplification of autosomal male benefit genes occur.”

74 posted on 08/05/2010 8:56:06 PM PDT by allmendream (Income is EARNED not distributed. So how could it be re-distributed?)
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