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From: daver@hp-pcd.UUCP
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Subject: Re: replies on creation vs. evolution
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Date: Sun, 19-Feb-84 22:44:00 EST
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From what I have been reading it seems that most present research in
evolution is done at the biochemical level rather than the gross
anatomical level.  Patterns of evolutionary development can be traced
by looking at enzymes and other proteins performing similar functions
in different species, and recently even at codon sequences for these
proteins in the genetic material of different species.  The evidence
of successive divergence of biochemicals among species is often 
remarkable.

A basic fallacy in many views of evolution is that the anatomy is what
evolves.  What actually evolves is the genetic material which creates
the anatomy, biochemistry, etc.  It is still too soon to be very
specific on this subject (and I am not a biologist or biochemist), but
there is evidence that very small changes in the genome of an individual 
can produce gross changes in the macroscopic appearance of that
individual.  Recent research seems to indicate that changing two
bases in the DNA of a mammalian cell is all it takes to cause that cell
to start reproducing uncontrollably and thus cause cancer.  It could be
that the "missing links" that people are looking for never existed
because the only difference between the old form and the new form was
the replacement of one or two nucleotides in the genome.

A chicken is only an egg's way of making another egg!

Dave Rabinowitz
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