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When the LORD your God brings you into the land you are entering to possess and drives out before you many nations-the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites, seven nations larger and stronger than you-and when the LORD your God has delivered them over to you and you have defeated them, then you must destroy them totally. Make no treaty with them, and show them no mercy. Do not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons, for they will turn your sons away from following me to serve other gods, and the LORD's anger will burn against you and will quickly destroy you. This is what you are to do to them: Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones, cut down their Asherah poles and burn their idols in the fire.

In effect, the Final Solution of the Canaanite Question.

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05-29-2003 2:51 AM

It is certainly true that our species is almost certainly not descended from any present-day ape species. However, the common ancestor would have been very simian, and very worthy of the title "ape".

And fossil hominids show show lots of intermediate features.

So this is a bit like quibbling over whether dogs are really descended from wolves.

And on the subject of dogs, the sequencing of their genome will get started in a few months, according to this article. Boxer dogs are the first to be sequenced, because they are relatively inbred, resulting in smaller amounts of confusion from polymorphisms. And when they are done, about a year from now, then 10 - 20 other breeds of dogs will have their genomes probed. It will be interesting to locate the genes that make a Great Dane so much bigger than a Chihuahua -- which are likely to be a very tiny fraction of the genome.

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