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To: dasboot
Well, since you and the earthworm share about 80% of the same genetic material (verified by DNA study as opposed to just looking at old proteins), I guess that might say something.

I do agree with you about the MSM spinning things for its ideological purposes. But the fact that the large majority of the TRex proteins identified so far match up to those of a probable 'living dinosaur' ie; a bird, IS significant. The fact that a couple match up to other critters is unremarkable (see my initial sentence above).

48 posted on 04/15/2007 10:47:04 AM PDT by Al Simmons (Personal Relationship w/God=Mind-Control Technique partly designed to inhibit critical thinking.)
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To: Al Simmons
"But the fact that the large majority of the TRex proteins identified so far match up to those of a probable 'living dinosaur' ie; a bird, IS significant. The fact that a couple match up to other critters is unremarkable "

That is a distortion of the information listed in the article. There were seven samples. Three matched chickens. Two matched "several species" including chickens (and who knows what else). And two matched creatures that couldn't be much different than chickens. Three samples out of seven matched a bird. Two were apparently inconclusive (or completely inclusive) and two certainly did not match a bird. That does not equal "a large majority" for any category. The fact that four out of seven samples were either inconclusive or pointed to something other than a bird cannot be considered insignificant by anyone not striving to support only one conclusion.

54 posted on 04/15/2007 12:26:28 PM PDT by Rokke
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To: Al Simmons

Significant is a good word. Idiological......dunno; but
words mean things these MSM writers seem to have forgotten.


55 posted on 04/15/2007 12:31:43 PM PDT by dasboot
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