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Author Topic:   Psuedogenes are good for Creationism!
wj
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Message 5 of 33 (100773)
04-18-2004 7:56 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by Raymon
04-18-2004 12:03 AM


Rayon writes:
After all, when all the animals went onto the Ark, there were for the most part only 2 of each kind. Since then, the kinds have undergoing rapid speciation, losing qualities that thier Ark kind must have had.
Why do you think that qualities must have been lost to produce speciation? I won't even bother to comment on the enormous rate of speciation which would have had to occur over a couple of thousand years for the ark-saved pairs to produce the current number of extant species. Don't you find it strange that there is no comment on the rapid rate of speciation in any historical material, including the bible? When did this hyperspeciation period finish?
Remember how after the Fall people started aging and dying? Well, presumably God took away some of his sustaining power right away.
Well, if your god used the mutation of functional genes into pseudogenes to produce this reduced lifespan, I assume that he disabled the normal mammalian GLO gene to produce the GLO pseudogene in humans. So, why did he also disable the GLO pseduogene in almost all other primates? And using an identical mutation? Were they somehow involved in the "Fall" story or were they merely collateral damage? Why didn't your god disable the GLO gene in all mammals? I understand that all other mammals are also subject to the curse of death whilst still retaining functional GLO genes.
This should even allow the exact discovery of where on the classification ladder you should put the term "kinds."
Humans share at least 2 pseudogenes that I know of with other primates. Are humans and primates of the same kind?

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wj
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Message 7 of 33 (100776)
04-18-2004 9:34 PM
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04-18-2004 8:24 PM


Hmmmm. According to Raymon's logic, howlers and spider monkeys having functional genes rather than pseudogenes and therefore should have longer lives than humans. But I don't think this is the case.

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