Re: Televangelist Robertson warns town of God's wrath

Phil Wilson wrote:

Post a link to any evolutionists who say that the planet is not old enough. Never heard that one before.


It was told to me in a conversation I had with a geneticist who had worked on the original DNA project in the '40s. He is the father of a good friend of mine. The premise is this: If the evolutionary process had relied solely on natural selection, as many of the evolutionists maintain, there simply would not have been enough time since the creation of the planet and now for life to have evolved because the rate of mutation even under extremely favorable conditions is much too low. Therefore, there must be other forces driving evolution either, external or perhaps within the cells themselves. Only about 12% of the DNA is used in the creation of the organism nobody really knows what the other 88% does except that at least a portion of if appears to contain instructions for the cell to use under specific circumstances. Circumstances that many times the cell has had no prior experience with. So where did these instructions come from? Experiments have been done with denucleated cells where the cells lived with out their nuclei for months until changes in the environment necessitated adaptation by the cell, whereupon the cells died because they couldn't adapt.
Bottom line is that the theory of natural selection only works in a very general sense. There is much about evolution that it doesn't explain...
There is an interesting article on junk DNA here: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2002-05/uomh-pop051002.php
TG
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