I would like just one evolution denier give a reasonable creationist explanation of
Human Chromosome number 2.
This fusion of ape chromosomes found in the human genome is solid evidence of common ancestry. In fact finding these fused chromosomes was a prediction based in evolution, something that the creationists claim cannot be done.
The evidence for evolution is overwhelming if you just take the time to look. We can use genetics to trace lineage far back in the evolutionary tree, showing which species are related and which ones ended up in a separate branch.
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Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.
--Theodosius Dobzhansky (1900-1975) Russian geneticist and evolutionary biologist[/FONT]
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Evolution is the GUT (GRAND UNIFYING THEORY) of biology. It is the bedrock principle of our scientific understanding of the natural laws that govern life. Furthermore, it is logically necessary for life's survival in a changing world environment. To deny this scientific principle is analogous to believing that the earth is the center of the universe!
--Dr. J. William Schopf, paleobiologist and director of UCLA's Center for the Study of Evolution and the Origin of Life[/FONT]
These quotes are significant because all of biology today is evolutionary. Every scientific and medical advance that is made, only could have occurred with evolution in mind. The fact is that science itself is self-correcting and self-confirming. If the science was wrong, the results of the science would not work. You would not be typing on your computer and benefiting from modern medicines if the basic theories of science were incorrect. Germ theory, atomic theory, cosmology, as well as evolutionary theory are all supported to be accurate models of the way things actually work by the very fact that we have technology based on them.
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A preacher thundering from his pulpit about the uniqueness of human beings with their God-given souls would not like to realize that his very gestures, the hairs that rose on his neck, the deepened tones of his outraged voice, and the perspiration that probably ran down his skin under clerical vestments are all manifestations of anger in mammals. If he was sneering at Darwin a bit (one does not need a mirror to know that one sneers), did he remember uncomfortably that a sneer is derived from an animal's lifting [of] its lip to remind an enemy of its fangs? Even while he was denying the principle of evolution, how could a vehement man doubt such intimate evidence?
--Sally Carrighar, Wild Heritage
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If every fossil were magicked away, the comparative study of modern organisms, of how their patterns of resemblances, especially of their genetic sequences, are distributed among species, and of how species are distributed among continents and islands, would still demonstrate, beyond all sane doubt, that our history is evolutionary, and that all living creatures are cousins. Fossils are a bonus. A welcome bonus, to be sure, but not an essential one. It is worth remembering this when creationists go on (as they tediously do) about "gaps" in the fossil record. The fossil record could be one big gap, and the evidence for evolution would still be overwhelmingly strong. At the same time, if we had only fossils and no other evidence, the fact of evolution would again be overwhelmingly supported. As things stand, we are blessed with both.
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. In just a few generations, the Bible would be an oddity.
found a link that explains a tiny bit about it http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/10/1027_041027_homo_floresiensis.html
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