I wonder when they will try raising a colony of great apes with that
gene segment deleted. It makes for some interesting ethical questions.
> What I noticed (most ironically) is that this particular gene, the first
> major one known to be clearly human, does indeed go the direction that
> anti-evolutionists perfer. The human sialic acid is a degenerate form when
> compared with the better ape version. Thus, we can conclude that our
> evolution obeys the "anti-evolutionary claims" and represents a loss of
> information. We have indeed lost information. God created the apes and we
> have degenerated from them. Now that we know that we are lesser than the
Can you really say it's a "degenerate" form and not simply an alternate
form. After all, it would presumably would have some beneficial trade-off
in order to be naturally selected.
- Steve.
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