The transcription of chimpanzee DNA last month was a particularly big deal because it allowed us to compare our common roots. It’s 96% identical to our DNA. But, more than that, it allowed the testing of a mutation hypothesis:
If Darwin was right, for example, then scientists should be able to perform a neat trick. Using a mathematical formula that emerges from evolutionary theory, they should be able to predict the number of harmful mutations in chimpanzee DNA by knowing the number of mutations in a different species’ DNA and the two animals’ population sizes.
“That’s a very specific prediction,” said Eric Lander, a geneticist at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard in Cambridge, Mass., and a leader in the chimp project.
Sure enough, when Lander and his colleagues tallied the harmful mutations in the chimp genome, the number fit perfectly into the range that evolutionary theory had predicted.
Simple confirmation of theory? Or, could it be…Satan?
Wow. No outright flames yet? Could it be that reason and evidence trump blind faith?
I gotta start heating things up in here soon. ;)
You damn Godless Liberals! You’re too clever by half.
This just in — 2 + 2 = 4!! Story at 11.
chimp dna did not resemble human dna until the abortion doctors started harvesting human fetuses to cross with chimps in order to prove their own godless theory that the earth is more than 5000 years old.
the liberals know no limit.