Re: South Carolina's Turn to Teach the Controvesy

In message <c0ipg.4323$pu3.101547@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Nashton <nananan@xxxxx> writes
Ken Denny wrote:
Nashton wrote:
Here's one for you.
Explain the eta-globin "pseudogene's" persistence *unchanged* for tens
of millions of years in a lineage, given the great cost to the species
for maintaining them unchanged.
First of all there is no great cost to the species for maintaining this
pseudogene.

Yes, there is. Every single cell carries it, from generation to generation.
You need nutrients to get ATP, you know.

Passing over the inconvenient (for you) fact that you claimed that the great cost was in maintaining it *unchanged* - it's a falsehood that eta-globin pseudogene has been maintained *unchanged* - would you justify you claim of great cost by presenting a figure for the proportion of the cell's metabolism taken up by maintaining and replication this sequence.

The genome contains thousands of pseudogenes, none with a
cost any higher than any other.

It wasn't a question of relativity of cost from one pseudogene compared to another.

The fact that the pseudogene is the same in humans and chimps supports
evolutionary theory.
Why would humans and chimps share a bit of unused
genetic code unless they both inherited it from a common ancestor?


Humans and chimps share many morphological features. Affirming common ancestry is only one plausible explanation.

The other "plausible" explanation being that God faked common ancestry. I hear that that explanation is considered theologically dubious.
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alias Ernest Major


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