This is about insertions in chromosomal locations that occur only as a result of retroviruses.
The insertions are then passed down to descendents.
If we share the same insertions as chimps, then this shows that we share a common ancestor.
This goes beyond mere DNA similarities to something which only kindred species could share.
Faith precedes understanding. This means that once you accept something based on faith, you must look for evidence to confirm this belief.
If all the evidence negates the belief, then you must either alter or abandon it in order to retain intellectual honesty.
Claiming that Neandertal morphology is an example of rickets within our own species is intellectually dishonest.
DNA testing has proven Neandertals to be a separate species. Infant Neandertals shared the same distinct morphology as their parents.
Many of the claims in Creationist books are insulting to anyone who has taken a advanced biology or anthropology class.
As someone who has taken both, I've become increasingly upset by how Creation Scientists are unable to support their claims with any material evidence. All they can do is quote evolutionists out of context and hope that the reader will not catch it.
For starters, please check out the mother list of rebuttals to Creationist claims:
An Index to Creationist Claims
edited by Mark Isaak
Copyright © 2005
http://www.talkorigins.org/indexcc/index.html
And then, please read this as an introduction for the evidence of macroevolution:
29+ Evidences for Macroevolution
The Scientific Case for Common Descent
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/comdesc/
I believe that for many theists, a problem that arises from the theory of evolution is the long history that occurred in the universe before the dawn of man. Perhaps they hold to young earth creationism because they are a little "jealous" that God would spend so much time tending to the development of other species before He created us. However, if God is infinite and eternal, and a "thousand years for God is but a day for man and a day for man is but a thousand years for God", then 4.5 billion years, the age of the earth according to modern science, would mean little to him in reference of time.
God created the human species through evolution. And many Christians refuse to believe this.
The insertions are then passed down to descendents.
If we share the same insertions as chimps, then this shows that we share a common ancestor.
This goes beyond mere DNA similarities to something which only kindred species could share.
Faith precedes understanding. This means that once you accept something based on faith, you must look for evidence to confirm this belief.
If all the evidence negates the belief, then you must either alter or abandon it in order to retain intellectual honesty.
Claiming that Neandertal morphology is an example of rickets within our own species is intellectually dishonest.
DNA testing has proven Neandertals to be a separate species. Infant Neandertals shared the same distinct morphology as their parents.
Many of the claims in Creationist books are insulting to anyone who has taken a advanced biology or anthropology class.
As someone who has taken both, I've become increasingly upset by how Creation Scientists are unable to support their claims with any material evidence. All they can do is quote evolutionists out of context and hope that the reader will not catch it.
For starters, please check out the mother list of rebuttals to Creationist claims:
An Index to Creationist Claims
edited by Mark Isaak
Copyright © 2005
http://www.talkorigins.org/indexcc/index.html
And then, please read this as an introduction for the evidence of macroevolution:
29+ Evidences for Macroevolution
The Scientific Case for Common Descent
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/comdesc/
I believe that for many theists, a problem that arises from the theory of evolution is the long history that occurred in the universe before the dawn of man. Perhaps they hold to young earth creationism because they are a little "jealous" that God would spend so much time tending to the development of other species before He created us. However, if God is infinite and eternal, and a "thousand years for God is but a day for man and a day for man is but a thousand years for God", then 4.5 billion years, the age of the earth according to modern science, would mean little to him in reference of time.
God created the human species through evolution. And many Christians refuse to believe this.
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