Peter B: I, for one, will be absolutely fascinated to see your comments inre how variable rates in the evolution of morpheus falsifies the NDT. Especially since I just finished (before reading this thread) posting another "rapid evolution" reference on a
D. melanogaster gene (Sdic). Obviously, the occurance is well-known and documented.
BTW: Thanks for providing another example that refutes Tranquility Base's contention about the impossibility of novel gene evolution. The part in your abstract concerning "Moreover, some genes emerge and evolve very rapidly,
generating copies that bear little similarity to their ancestral precursors." quite nicely adds additional weight to my rebuttal of HIS assertion. (ID, attempting to trump evolution, instead trumps YEC. Whee.)
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