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and fail to show that there are over 62 THOUSAND completely different DNA sequences that have no relation in the Man/monkey comparison! This is the fallacy of not portraying the whole truth. In laymen's terms, A LIE! If a measley difference of 62,000 proves homology to you, then sobeit. It sure doesn't prove it to me.
Are you sure you don't mean 62,000 BP difference? (note: Not 62,000 genes. One gene is comprised of many BP).
Common ancestor = 6 million years ago
12 million total years of divergence.
An average of 1 bp mutation fixating every 193 years
And this seems... *fast* ... to you???
So, Matt, at what point would one consider something an animal and not an animal? For example, if we were to splice 30,000 of those BP differences into a chimp (or vice versa), would it be an animal? Or a human? What would be the moral issues concerning it (since you think we should have dominion over animals, where would it lie in your scheme of things?)
We're all made of the same stuff, and have the same morphology; we just have some extra synapses going on up there. I'm sorry if this bothers you, but our bodies are the exact same stuff.
(Edit: I should probably check his 62,000 number, that doesn't look right)
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[This message has been edited by Rei, 12-11-2003]
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