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To: neolib who wrote (246312)	8/16/2005 11:47:19 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1571815

"It shows up most nicely in the chromosomal numbers, Old World apes have 24 pairs, we have 23 pairs which we know to be the result of a fusion event in our lineage." Good point. In all honesty, I haven't kept current and so my statement about "current evolutionary theory" might be wrong. Mea maxima culpa. I never really pursued the argument beyond Noah. It is an obvious choke point, so I never had to extended it to Adam and Eve. You are, of course correct in pointing out that even discounting Noah for what ever reason doesn't get them off the hook. So the question boils down to is Bishop Ulster correct in determining 4004 BC as the date of creation? Even if not, then how long to account for the divergence of humanity? And why isn't that evolution? Ok, the ID crowd might chime in that the world is more than 6000 years old and The Designer chose do things the way he chose to. The only problem is that there isn't any way to differentiate that from evolution. Sure, you can point to things like the flagella in a bacterium and question how there could be intermediate forms. And that is a killer, but the question of how a dinosaur could evolve into a bird used to be the killer also. That shouldn't be a real question, except for the most dogmatic, after those Chinese fossils. The point is that ID fails Occam, there is no reason to suppose it is true. Having said that, I feel the need to say I actually like ID because it fits with my own faith. But it isn't science.