Neo Darwinists are fond of pointing out that people share over 98% of our dna with chimpanzees, but how is that possible when we have 46 chromosomes and all primates have 48? And come to think of it, why are we the only exception? And when the boondoggle known as the Human Genome Project began, biologists believed that humans have over 100,000 genes; now they estimate we have perhaps 30,000 or 35,000. If they have no idea how many genes we have, how can they say we share 98% of them with chimps?
And biochemists were confident that each gene codes for one enzyme, but now it turns out that the human body produces at least 300,000 enzymes. In other words, they haven't a clue. Nor do they have a clue what guides undifferentiated stem cells to grow into all the varied and specialized cells that a body needs, and to do so at the right locations, and to form the necessary organs.
Could it be that the advocates of intelligent design have been right all along? And could it be that something more than physical genes guides our development from a fertilized egg into a functioning human being?
William B Stoecker
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QUOTE (William B Stoecker @ Mar 7 2008, 06:14 PM) 
Neo Darwinists are fond of pointing out that people share over 98% of our dna with chimpanzees, but how is that possible when we have 46 chromosomes and all primates have 48? And come to think of it, why are we the only exception? And when the boondoggle known as the Human Genome Project began, biologists believed that humans have over 100,000 genes; now they estimate we have perhaps 30,000 or 35,000. If they have no idea how many genes we have, how can they say we share 98% of them with chimps?
And biochemists were confident that each gene codes for one enzyme, but now it turns out that the human body produces at least 300,000 enzymes. In other words, they haven't a clue. Nor do they have a clue what guides undifferentiated stem cells to grow into all the varied and specialized cells that a body needs, and to do so at the right locations, and to form the necessary organs.
Could it be that the advocates of intelligent design have been right all along? And could it be that something more than physical genes guides our development from a fertilized egg into a functioning human being?
William B Stoecker
And biochemists were confident that each gene codes for one enzyme, but now it turns out that the human body produces at least 300,000 enzymes. In other words, they haven't a clue. Nor do they have a clue what guides undifferentiated stem cells to grow into all the varied and specialized cells that a body needs, and to do so at the right locations, and to form the necessary organs.
Could it be that the advocates of intelligent design have been right all along? And could it be that something more than physical genes guides our development from a fertilized egg into a functioning human being?
William B Stoecker
This is not science. Intelligent design is not science. Attacking evolution (incorrectly) does not back intelligent design. Intelligent design is a pseudo-science.
Are horses and donkeys are unrelated by you logic there btw. Horses have 64 chromosomes, donkeys have 62.
We have between 20000 and 25000 actually. Either way this is genes, not DNA, they are related (Genes are encoded by DNA, they are not the same however) so this makes you point irrelevant.
Gene products are not always enzymes.
We know how to manipulate eggs already to change them (i.e we can turn a wing into a leg).
Baseless and incorrect. Typical intelligent design. ID has nothing to back it up, it just tries to attack. See why it is not a science?
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