Re: Can any old earther refute common genetic ancestry?

r norman wrote:

On Tue, 4 Dec 2007 12:58:12 -0800 (PST), James Goetz
<james.goetz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:


Comparative genetics and population genetics provide compelling
evidence for common genetic ancestry. All genome differences in all
extant biological life can be broken down to population isolation and
microevolution, where microevolution is the processes of mutation and
drift and selection. And mutations include point substitutions,
indels, conversions, and chromosome aberrations. Can anybody show me
an extant genome that cannot be explained by population isolation and
microevolution?


Can anybody show me an extant genome that cannot be explained by
special creation?

Your demand has validity only if you accept the materialistic world
view that has dominated most of western civilization for the last few
centuries. Reject that and it is meaningless.

Taking up part-time creationism? I'll toss out the usual response,
because it's a dandy response.

Sure, you can "explain" anything at all by special creation. But it's an
odd sort of explanation. If you assume an omnipotent creator, anything
can happen. So nothing at all can be evidence in favor of such a
creator, or evidence against either. It belongs to a family of
explanations that also includes omphalism and Last-Tuesdayism.

Then again, common descent with modifications from microevolutionary
mutations has quite definite expectations. If we see them, we have good
evidence for common descent. If we don't see them, that's a problem for
common descent. And so common descent is a useful hypothesis. And one
that turns out to have lots of support.

If we can be Popperian for a moment, common descent is a bold
hypothesis, while separate creation is not.

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  • Re: Can any old earther refute common genetic ancestry?
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    (talk.origins)
  • Re: Can any old earther refute common genetic ancestry?
    ... evidence for common genetic ancestry. ... All genome differences in all ... extant biological life can be broken down to population isolation and ... common descent with modifications from microevolutionary ...
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