Crazy things Creationists have said

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A Young Earth Creationist expressed disbelief in evolution, arguing that animals adapt but do not evolve, and questioned the existence of dinosaurs, claiming they were merely fabricated bones. He asserted that the Earth is only about 7,000 years old and attributed imperfections in creation to sin rather than design flaws. The discussion highlighted a broader concern about scientific illiteracy, with examples of individuals lacking basic scientific knowledge. Participants noted that extreme beliefs in creationism often lead to misunderstandings of science, while some defended the existence of rational religious individuals. The conversation underscored the ongoing tension between scientific understanding and fundamentalist beliefs.
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Aether said:
This has already been done: http://www.genome.gov/25520551

Obviously there were many now extinct species between Pan troglodytes and Homo sapiens, ...

Your wording or something is confusing me here. It sounds like your saying we evolved from pan troglodytes (chimps), and it's possible to deduce what now-extinct variations happened in between, how we got from chimp to man. This is confusing me.
 
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zoobyshoe said:
Your wording or something is confusing me here. It sounds like your saying we evolved from pan troglodytes (chimps), and it's possible to deduce what now-extinct variations happened in between, how we got from chimp to man. This is confusing me.
That is what I inferred from the article, but you are correct that it's more complicated than that. Pan troglodytes split from the line that leads directly to humans about five million years ago so a direct interpolation wouldn't be exactly right.

What I gather from other sources is that human DNA only contains about 30-100MB of incompressible information (Ray Kurzweil), and that "human DNA is 98.4 percent identical to the DNA of chimpanzees" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_evolution). I would assume that the vast majority of candidate genomes that could be generated by interpolating between these two species would be strongly maladaptive, and based on the ones that weren't (and by considering the genomes of other closely related species) I think that we could probably work our way back to a close approximation of their common ancestor. However, I do not know what the ultimate outcome of that process will be.
 
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There were a few blurbs on TV (in the last month or so) on how even just different types of food can change the DNA signature with genetically identical siblings even at different stages of life.
 
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rewebster said:
There were a few blurbs on TV (in the last month or so) on how even just different types of food can change the DNA signature with genetically identical siblings even at different stages of life.
Please try and post a link to an online article that describes this claim in more detail.
 

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