At 5/12/2012 7:53:33 PM, Wnope wrote:At 5/10/2012 5:14:30 PM, SuburbiaSurvivor wrote:At 5/9/2012 11:22:35 PM, Wnope wrote:At 5/9/2012 10:56:33 PM, SuburbiaSurvivor wrote:At 5/9/2012 7:02:16 PM, Wnope wrote:At 5/8/2012 9:20:04 PM, SuburbiaSurvivor wrote:
No you haven't. The study merely points out that they found two similar genes. They didn't prove that the gene wasn't in the genetic code already. If the study does prove that it appeared during their observations, then please point that section out and I will concede.
This is the kind of thing that makes one wonder how well you've read the study.
"Sequence analysis revealed that the colobine-specific paralog has an intron that is shared with RNASE1, suggesting that the new gene was produced by DNA duplication, rather than by retrotransposition of a processed RNA transcript."
And in case the scientific shorthand is still unfamiliar to you, "suggesting" in this case is to speak with statistical significance. It does not mean "shot in the dark guess."
Wnope, thank you for your input but I'm already aware that the two enzymes are very similar in chemical structure. The fact that the intron is shared does not necessarily imply that it was the result of a duplication and then mutation. To induct that would be to assume that it is possible for duplications and further mutation to produce such genes in the first place, but this has yet to have been properly demonstrated. It simply hasn't been proven that the gene didn't already exist in the genetic code of the monkey to begin with.
You could equally argue that genetic testing for whether someone is your sibling cannot "prove" someone is your brother because it could just as easily be the fact that another human exists with almost identical DNA who is not directly related to you.
The only way for them to have identical DNA to you would be to be a clone. It's one thing to conclude that because my genes are very similar to the genes of this man over here, this is the result of being related to him. It's in an entirely different ball park to conclude that because my genes are very similar to the genes of this man over here, this is the result of my genes mutating from his genes, get what I'm saying?
Thats not how dna tests work. You dont literally take all the dna and compare it codon by codon. You sequence specific parts and use gel electro to get an approximate match.
Forgive me, but I fail to see how this somehow proves phylogenetics is a reliable methodology. It seems that you're saying DNA testing shows similarities in the DNA of different species, but I don't see how this proves this is the result of mutation.
So my point stands. Rejecting phylogenetics is tantamount to rejecting the ability to identify parents or siblings by dna.
The statistical chance of dna resulting from mutation of an ancestor is calculated similarly whether you compare siblings or species.
Your problem is with science in general, not evolution.
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