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To: Stavka2
Ummmmm..Ok

A blue whale is a blue whale is a blue whale....

Now breed it to become a humpback whale and I'm sold.

Or try this...

A chimp is a chimp is a chimp is a chimp is a chimp.....

Now breed it to become a human and I'm sold.

If I were you I'd start with the chimp, they are 99% compatible.

So close................................................... yet so far away.

132 posted on 12/18/2002 3:19:12 PM PST by Jimmyclyde
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To: Jimmyclyde
Ummmmm..Ok

A blue whale is a blue whale is a blue whale....

Now breed it to become a humpback whale and I'm sold.

OK, Not with Whales but how about breeding a carp into a goldfish

From a simple carp we now have many breeds of goldfish which are a different species from the original, Many breeds of goldfish are so different from one another they can't breed with each other.

Stop in your local petshop and look, The differences are stagering

Goldfish come in many colors (Reds, Whites, Blues and blacks)while the original carp was a browish monocolor

All Goldfish lost the barbles on their mouth the original carp had

Unlike the carp Most breeds of goldfish have 2 tails, Some lack the dorsal fin.

Most goldfish are Egg shaped while the carp (and the common goldfish) are cigar shaped.

Some types of goldfish have bubble sacks around there eyes. So a whole new organ that wasn't there before was developed.

Many types of goldfish have (for lack of a better word) growth on their heads, like a mane. Most notably the Lionheads & Orandas.

Some types of goldfish like the Pearlscale have unique types of scales

Now Goldfish were breed from the carp in ~1000 AD, So in just a thousand years we were able to breed animals with all kinds of different traits than it's original ancestors, So it isn't inconceivable that over 5 billion years which is 5 million times the amount of time all creatures we see today.

Do the math.

I not sure of the exact numbers but even if goldfish are 99.999% genetically similar to their original carp ancestor that would show it is possible to genetically change an animal 0.001% over 1000 years. So in 5 billion years it will be possible to genetically change an animal 5000% and currently I believe there isn't a lifeform that is more than 50% different DNA wise from anyother lifeform.

137 posted on 12/18/2002 8:48:58 PM PST by qam1
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To: Jimmyclyde
Do you understand the branching process of new species proliferation? Just because blue whales and humpbacks came from the same ancestor, through different environments and mutations they are no longer genetically compatible. This happens over time.

Why is it that you people fear evolution? In no way does evolution contradict the Bible, no more then other planets orbitting other suns contradict the Bible or gravity or the atom.

Or is it the self love, the narcosism, that does not allow you to accept that in His wisdom, God may have lifted us up from chimps and made us into human beings?

141 posted on 12/19/2002 2:12:08 AM PST by Stavka2
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