> Why do flies and humans have similar HOX
> genes, the genes responsible for the embryonic development of morphological
> form? This is due to common descent.
OTOH, it could be due to a common design. There is no reason to draw
the conclusion that you do, based upon similar HOX genes.
> Multiple origins of life and multiple
> origins of the major groups by progressive creation would not necessarily
> expect that the insects should use the same HOX complex as man, yet they do
> use remarkably similar ones. Why would God necessarily use the same HOX
> complex? God could have ended the evolutionary argument simply by giving
> each major group, its own unique HOX complex. That situation would have
> clearly marked life as having separate origins. But God didn't do that.
You're right, Glenn. He left room for us to exercise faith that what He
wrote to us in the scriptures is true.
> No, but then again, there is no reason God could not have been more
> creative than that and left an INDELIBLE mark upon living systems that
> clearly ruled out evolution! He didn't.
He didn't have to after saying "Let the land produce living creatures
according to their kinds..." (Genesis 1:24)
Bill Payne