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Image from ICR article.

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http://www.sciencephoto.com/image/516813/350wm/C0162032-Methyltransferase_complexed_with_DNA-SPL.jpg

Caption: Methyltransferase complexed with DNA, molecular model. The strand of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid, green and yellow) is enclosed by DNA methyltransferase 1 (DNMT-1, purple and pink). This enzyme acts to add methyl groups to the DNA, a process called DNA methylation, which can silence and regulate genes without changing the genetic sequence. DNA methylation is also being studied in relation to cancer.

[donmeaker]

Darwin didn’t know DNA.

It has long been known that something controlled the expression of genes, because gill like structures are normal in a fetus, but not normal in an adult.

This may be one of the means by which genetic expression is controlled.

[freedumb2003]

>> Instead, researchers are now discovering that organisms robustly adapt to their habitats while clearly remaining within their biblical kind.<<

Since there is no scientific concept of “biblical kind” this statement is meaningless, as is the rest of the article.

[Amendment10]

As an additional reference for this thread, I'm including a link to a NOVA video (2 hours) concerning Darwin. The video introduces the idea of "switching" genes being responsible for different animal species. An interesting aspect of the video is that I don't believe it mentions mutations as being responsible for "new" animal species, the idea of mutations often used in early explanations of new animal species.

What Darwin Never Knew

[catnipman]

Actually, the great bulk of information in an organism is epigentic. When a cell divides, all non-nuclear organelles and other structures are duplicated BEFORE the final division, and half of those organelles and structures are passed to the new cell.

In the case of humans, the female egg contains a complete copy of such organelles and structures, and these form the basis for replication for all future human cells. Offspring are FAR more a product of their mother than their father, whose sperm merely contributes half the DNA.

[Tench_Coxe]

Why are these being posted in News/Activism?

[wonkowasright]

Darwinian evolution said nothing about dna mutation. It was a completely different paradigm.

[tbpiper]

Think about the damage ‘genetic engineering’ is doing. It’s like using 12th century battle axe when what is needed is a laser scalpel.

[Ha Ha Thats Very Logical]

Sometimes it seems like the authors of these articles are so committed to falsehoods that they lie about even the smallest things. "Some are even calling this recent research "evolution heresy." No, one writer for one magazine used the word to create an attention-getting headline. But I guess that wasn't enough for Jeffrey and his followers.