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To: gcruse
The no-proof-of-evolution yahoos will tell you God created us this way, just to fool us.

I'm not sure whether I fall in that category, but I see nothing in this article that proves we're all descended from a clump of amino acids. In fact, one could argue that the very lack of diversity in the human genome actually supports the idea of special creation.

8 posted on 01/07/2002 4:46:37 PM PST by DallasMike
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To: DallasMike
I'm not sure whether I fall in that category, but I see nothing in this article that proves we're all descended from a clump of amino acids. In fact, one could argue that the very lack of diversity in the human genome actually supports the idea of special creation.

Good point. The problem is, how would this notion account for the fact that humans have, in common with apes, monkeys, and in fact all primates, identical copies of a broken gene for the production of vitamin C, all of which are broken in precisely the same way?

The evolutionary account is that all the primates inherited the gene from a common ancestor, which didn't need vitamin C while living on fruits and leaves. The creationist account can only be that it pleased a Creator to make all primates with identically-mangled versions of a gene that is functional in so many other creatures, for reasons that no one can explain.

14 posted on 01/11/2002 4:13:20 PM PST by Karl_Lembke
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