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Author Topic:   Can the standard "Young Earth Creationist" model be falsified by genetics alone?
Taq
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Message 26 of 161 (697762)
04-29-2013 4:47 PM
Reply to: Message 20 by jbozz21
04-25-2013 2:46 AM


Re: The Y-chromosome falsification.
We believe in the Bible by moral and spiritual experiences with the teachings of the Bible which can all be proven to be true by simple practice. Just like you can go outside and touch sand if you want to know that it is real not believe in someone else telling you it is real, you actually experience it using your senses.
What if the Bible says that sand is made of cheese bits, but upon testing the sand you find it is made of quartz. What then? Do we ignore all of the evidence and insist that sand really is made of cheese, and anyone who disagrees just has bad motives and biases?
That is an experiment that is much more reliable to me in my opinion than someone taking DNA and putting through some chemicals and saying "yup, the apes are your cousins..." by some scientist whom I have no idea what motives lie behind their desires to disprove the claims of the Bible, nor whether they are acting out of bias or whether their claims are actually legitimate. Who's experiment's are not reproducible to me.
Of course you can reproduce their data. All you need is the proper training and schooling. The very fact that you consider your ignorance an indication of bias in others is quite telling.

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Message 58 of 161 (706325)
09-09-2013 4:21 PM
Reply to: Message 56 by bluegenes
09-09-2013 5:13 AM


Re: Lots of apes on the Ark?!
It's interesting to note that it would be even harder to fit the common chimps and gorillas into a bottleneck 4,500 yrs ago than it is humans, as they have greater within species diversity than we do.
The larger problem is that if the human and ape groups have separate common ancestors then humans should be genetically equidistant from all ape species. As it is, chimps and humans share more DNA than chimps and gorillas.

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