Does it really matter if we came from monkies? (priest, Darwin)

[Melody]

Originally Posted by FeathersinHair

TTL, please pay attention to what NetDoc is saying. And while I welcome you here, being newish doesn't mean you can 'get away' with being unkind.

That's right. That's reserved for the people who have been here longest

And no feathers, that was not meant for you.

[Melody]

Originally Posted by NetDoc

Spinks,,, you got fruballed for
This gets back to my "Cake theory". It doesn't matter whether God winked it into existence or set evolution in motion to do the deed. What matters for faith is that GOD was the prime motivator.

Well darn...this was definitely a "frubal moment" and it wouldn't let me. Hmmph.

Excellent point!

I'm not sure whether or not I believe in evolution though, particularly after taking anthropology. It just seemed as if there were too many leaps of faith I would have to take to come to the same conclusions. I'm not sure I'm able to put those aside. (i.e. the missing link with humans).

[may]

The

Gap Between Man and Monkeys

A recent analysis of the DNA of chimpanzees and orangutans, as well as of certain monkeys and macaques, has revealed that their genetic makeup is not as similar to man’s as scientists once thought. "Large differences in DNA, not small ones, separate apes and monkeys from both humans and each other," says Britain’s New Scientist magazine. "There are large deletions and insertions sprinkled throughout the chromosome," explains Kelly Frazer of Perlegen Sciences, the California, U.S.A., company that did the analysis. New Scientist characterized the differences as a "yawning gap [that] divides monkeys and us."

[t3gah]

Originally Posted by may

The Gap Between Man and Monkeys

A recent analysis of the DNA of chimpanzees and orangutans, as well as of certain monkeys and macaques, has revealed that their genetic makeup is not as similar to man’s as scientists once thought. "Large differences in DNA, not small ones, separate apes and monkeys from both humans and each other," says Britain’s New Scientist magazine. "There are large deletions and insertions sprinkled throughout the chromosome," explains Kelly Frazer of Perlegen Sciences, the California, U.S.A., company that did the analysis. New Scientist characterized the differences as a "yawning gap [that] divides monkeys and us."

"Recent" as in last month, last year or ?

[lilithu]

Originally Posted by may

"Large differences in DNA, not small ones, separate apes and monkeys from both humans and each other," says Britain’s New Scientist magazine.

It's all relative. To say that the difference is larger than thought is not the same as saying that the differences are not spanned by evolution.

Originally Posted by may

"There are large deletions and insertions sprinkled throughout the chromosome," explains Kelly Frazer of Perlegen Sciences, the California, U.S.A., company that did the analysis.

Deletions and insertions are just that. Deleting sequences of DNA and inserting pieces of DNA. Underlying that statement is the fact that there are enough similarities in the sequences to identify the deletions and insertions. If they weren't so closely related, no one would be able to identify anything.

[Mr Spinkles]

Originally Posted by NetDoc

This gets back to my "Cake theory". It doesn't matter whether God winked it into existence or set evolution in motion to do the deed. What matters for faith is that GOD was the prime motivator.

Then again, evolution isn't mutually exclusive from invisible pink unicorns, either.

[Scuba Pete]

Given the rich variety of possibilities in the DNA code, I don't think invisible pink uniforms are that far off from reality.