Science Overturns Evolution's Best Argument
gabriel
have faith in their beliefs - but science continues to falsify
their beliefs. No matter how often this happen, they will not
abandon evolutionism as it's not science anyway: it cannot be
observed happening, nor shown in any test case actually
happening. One can only believe in it.
This is why must get back to teaching real science in school, so
that students are no longer graduating thinking they can just
make up beliefs that are not observable and that are not able to
be shown in any test cases, and yet pass that off as science. The
truth is no origins theory can qualify as science.
http://www.icr.org/article/5136/
Science Overturns Evolution's Best Argument
by Brian Thomas, M.S. *
Transposons are a class of �mobile genetic elements� that operate
within the DNA of living organisms. For years, macroevolutionary
proponents have claimed that their presence undoubtedly supports
Darwinian evolution. But a recent investigation showed that
transposons have been wrongly interpreted, changing
macroevolution�s best argument into its worst nightmare�an almost
complete lack of genetic material for it to �tweak� into newly
selectable features.
Transposons are segments of DNA that utilize cellular machines to
replicate themselves and then splice the copies back into the
host DNA, thus inflating the total volume of DNA without adding
new genes. Some species appear to have large volumes of DNA that
resulted from this process. About 44.4 percent of human DNA
consists of repetitive elements, with perhaps most from
transposons.
Many scientists still believe that these repeated segments
contain nearly random, functionless, non-coding sequences with
which �evolution� can tinker. But a new study published in Nature
Genetics found that they actually contain functional code that is
accessed for use in specific tissues.1 Scientists recently
discovered that DNA which came from transposons can regulate the
expression of gene products.
One class of transposons, called �retrotransposons,� is formed
when DNA is copied into RNA, which is then reverse-copied back
into DNA. Retrotransposon sequences had been almost dogmatically
interpreted by evolutionary scientists as remnants of ancient
viruses. These viruses supposedly infected the host organism long
ago, and it was assumed that the viral DNA became incorporated
into one or more of its chromosomes.
Intriguingly, chimpanzees and humans share some almost identical
repeated sequences that look as though they were formed by
retrotransposons. Evolutionists have argued that they must have
been introduced by the same virus before the two species diverged
from a (presumably) ape-like ancestor. Thus, each species retains
today a remnant of the same ancient viral infection.
This is often cited as strong evidence that humans and
chimpanzees share common ancestry, and therefore that broad-scale
evolution is true?that single cells can eventually develop into
humans through random natural forces. This is currently one of
evolution�s best arguments.
But the argument rests squarely upon the premise that these long
DNA repeat sequences came from ancient viruses. Creation
scientists predicted that not all�and perhaps not
any�retrotransposon activity was viral or random, but instead was
part of a well-designed, originally created cellular process.2
The new Nature Genetics study has confirmed this creation
prediction.
The researchers found that between 6 and 30 percent of active RNA
transcripts use retrotransposon sequences.1 These transcripts
carry regulatory information from the DNA to the rest of the
cell. They also found that different sections of retrotransposon
sequences are accessed by different tissues. Thus, at least some,
and perhaps all, of the sequences carry important information for
certain cells to use. This means transposons did not come from
ancient viruses and therefore can no longer be used to support
the idea that chimpanzees and humans evolved from a common
ancestor that was infected by a virus.3
This discovery will likely disappoint a generation of
evolutionary scientists who based human-chimp ancestry and
therefore broad-scale evolution on the false assumption that
retrotransposons and the like were from viral infections. But it
likewise ought to disappoint those who have relied on supposedly
useless, supposedly virus-derived DNA as raw material employed by
some imaginary evolutionary process to engineer
ever-more-complicated life forms. Instead, it looks like all DNA
is useful, which suggests that its host creatures were designed
on purpose.4
References
1.Faulkner, G. J. et al. 2009. The regulated retrotransposon
transcriptome of mammalian cells. Nature Genetics. 41 (5):
563-571.
2.Walkup, L. K. 2000. Junk DNA: evolutionary discards or God�s
tools? Technical Journal (now Journalof Creation). 14 (2): 18-30.
http://creation.com/junk-dna-evolutionary-discards-or-gods-tools
3.The reason that both chimpanzees and humans have such similar
looking sequences on similar chromosomes could be because both
species experienced similar retrotransposon activity in the past,
following similar patterns when they were being copied and
inserted within their respective species.
4.For more examples, see Thomas, B. Genetic Expression: Same
Genes Can Produce Different Results. ICR News. Posted on icr.org
November 19, 2008, accessed December 17, 2009.
http://www.icr.org/article/genetic-expression-same-genes-can-produce-differen/
Zadok
"gabriel" <gabriel...@hotmail.com> wrote in message ...
> Evolutionism offers belief stacked upon belief as to why they
> have faith in their beliefs - but science continues to falsify
> their beliefs. No matter how often this happen, they will not
> abandon evolutionism as it's not science anyway: it cannot be
> observed happening, nor shown in any test case actually
> happening. One can only believe in it.
Gabby, do you have any idea how fucking stupid you look, posting that crap??
You clowns had your chance in a court room, before a conservative judge, and
got your
asses kicked. Even a conservative judge had to admit that your creationism
is nothing by religion
dressed up to look like science, and threw your crap out.
Now rather than accept that, you are on here pretending to know something.
Smile.