Jeff
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> I commend your effort. Once you have worked your way through
> BIO 121, keep going further in, further up.
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Actually I have studied biology at a much higher level but this book is
a good way to see how it is presented this day especially as to
evolution. Dawkins is clearly presented as the answer and his result is
presented as dogma and this is why this book is useful for examination.
Fortunately, much of the real issues in the creation vs. evolution
debate are accessable to generally educated and intelligent persons but
it would be helpful to have a phd in physics, biology, biochemistry,
hebrew, philosophy, religion, etc.
Unfortunately, it sometimes takes someone outside the mainstream to
point out the emporers satorical defficiences.
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As to homeobox genes, I guess I will have to devote a day to finishing
the book. I actually asked earlier on this line for comments. What I
have obtained is the view that there may be something that turns
assemblies on or off and the evidence for example is that sometimes
organisms are born with an extra limb or a missing brain. There is a
very weak or no case that this is the missing invention mechanism, only
control.
It strikes one that this is the "next great thing." that is, "eureka,
now we have found it, the real secret to evolution." Funny thing when I
was in high school the "prebiotic soup" was taught as dogma and many
non-evolutionists did not see the evidence for such a mass. Now, the
"next great thing" is that actually life began in holes in the ground or
came from Mars.
Bert M.
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