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To: Exnihilo
Any half-wit who has read the Torah or the Christian Bible knows that God didn't create human beings in a perfect state, physically or in any other way.

And that makes you a ...?

Anyhow, I'm relieved to understand from your post that even some knee-jerk "Intelligent Designists" believe that humans have and continue to evolve!

7 posted on 02/27/2002 2:40:07 PM PST by OBAFGKM
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To: OBAFGKM
the researchers determined that about 35 percent of the accumulated changes were "good."

"The proportion is shockingly high," said Wu, "for someone like myself who grew up in the neutralist era." It means one advantageous substitution has entered the human genome every two centuries since humans separated from monkeys 30 million years ago.

Doesn't this set off any alarm bells for my evolutionary friends? What advantagoues substitutions can be documented as occuring throughout the entire human genome within human history? Didn't "Ice Man" in the Apls and the "Cheddar Man" in England have the same genes as people living in those areas do today?

So you have an "incrediabley high rate" of good mutations separating us from monkies, but almost no change from the earlylist humna DNA that can be found. Also, it is well documented that humans have a remarkable low level of genetic diversity. Two chimps living on the same mountain in Africa can have more genetic diversity than any two people on Earth.

All of that evidence just does not fit with the results of this study- if man evolved from a non-human ancestor. OTOH, if you believe that man was a relatively recent special creation of God then it would be the result that you would expect. A low diversity in the human group, yet a large number of good gene differences from monkies. Far too many good differnces to have accumulated by chance or any other documented evolutiuonary mechanism. The number is especially TOO LARGE when one considers how similiar we are with ancient DNA from bronze age humans. We have not changes harldy a bit in 5K years, but changes must occur rapidly to allow for our differneces with monkies! Special Creation eliminates the contradiction, for only the assumption that we evolved from a common ancestor with monkies produces the contradiction.

10 posted on 02/27/2002 3:01:45 PM PST by Ahban
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