Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: notesfiles - hp internal release 1.2; site hp-kirk.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!hp-pcd!daver From: daver@hp-pcd.UUCP Newsgroups: net.misc Subject: Re: replies on creation vs. evolution Message-ID: <11300014@hp-pcd.UUCP> Date: Sun, 19-Feb-84 22:44:00 EST Article-I.D.: hp-pcd.11300014 Posted: Sun Feb 19 22:44:00 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 11-Feb-84 06:35:13 EST References: <812@qubix.UUCP> Organization: Hewlett-Packard - Corvallis, OR Lines: 26 Nf-ID: #R:qubix:-81200:hp-kirk:11300014:000:1400 Nf-From: hp-kirk!daver Feb 7 19:44:00 1984 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 hplabs!hp-pcd!daver