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To: allmendream
When pressed it seems that many Creationists don't even believe in “micro” evolution - that being the change (through either addition subtraction or substitution) in the genetic information that leads to better survival outcomes.

Micro-evolution is possible through the inheritance of recessive genes. If macro-evolution was a positively provable theory, you would not be retreating to negative arguments against the ark.

73 posted on 11/29/2011 2:50:41 PM PST by mas cerveza por favor
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To: mas cerveza por favor
Recessive genes are not an example of evolution.

A recessive gene effects phenotype - it has no change in the allele frequency of the population.

Evolution is a change in the DNA of a population.

Hiding the recessive gene for blue eyes behind a gene for brown eyes is mixing and matching those alleles - it changes nothing as far as their prevalence within the population.

Your understanding of the very basics of biology is completely lacking.

77 posted on 11/29/2011 3:00:41 PM PST by allmendream (Tea Party did not send the GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism.)
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