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To: 2MAR$ who wrote (28994)	7/29/2012 12:56:25 AM
From: Solon	Respond to of 69300

Chromosome #2...FUSED. It does not get more clearer than that, does it? We are wonderful apes. Adam and Eve were a primitive type of Chimp. Now moving on to the weariness of America. Can you find a rebirth?

To: 2MAR$ who wrote (28994)	7/29/2012 11:33:31 AM
From: Giordano Bruno	Read Replies (6) \| Respond to of 69300

If the fusion doesn't occur among a majority of individuals at the same time, it couldn't spread due to the infertility of their offspring. So, is your evolutionary chromosome fusion a near instantaneous process for the majority of the tribe?

To: 2MAR$ who wrote (28994)

7/29/2012 3:09:49 PM

From: Brumar89

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Craig Venter denies common descent — Dawkins incredulous

March 10, 2011

Posted by William Dembski under Darwinism, Evolution, Evolutionary biology, Origin Of Life

37 Comments

Interesting story at Evolution News & Views about an exchange between Craig Venter (of human genome fame) and Richard Dawkins (of neo-atheist fame). Venter denies common descent, Dawkins can’t believe that he would even question it. For the exchange, which also includes Paul Davies, go here (start at the 9 minute mark). Origin-of-life researchers such as Ford Doolittle and Carl Woese have questioned for some time whether there even is a tree of life. Venter is now following in their train.

What’s significant is not so much whether Venter is right (I think he is), but what his dissent from Darwinian orthodoxy suggests about the disarray in the study of biological origins. If common descent is up for grabs, what isn’t? Imagine physics in the century after Newton questioning whether there even is such a force as gravity or suggesting that really it decomposes into several different types of gravitational forces.

Venter’s flight from orthodoxy is even more drastic. Common descent is the sanctum sanctorum of evolutionary biology. If scientists of Venter’s stature are now desecrating it, what’s next?

uncommondescent.com

Worse than that he said:

"The tree of life is an artifact of some early scientific studies that aren't really holding up...So there is not a tree of life."

evolutionnews.org