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Commentary on Genesis 1:25.
Genesis 1:25 – And God made the beast of the earth according to its kind, cattle according to its kind, and everything
Genesis 1:25 – And God made the beast of the earth according to its kind, cattle according to its kind, and everything
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Your comments are insightful and intellectual. Thank you. But humans are more than chromosomes. I won't pretend to understand all you have said, I am not a scientist. But I do know that I have a soul and a spirit. And I know there is a God, for He has proven Himself to me in many ways.
Thank you for taking the time to comment.
I think, in general, that the theory of evolution fits the data better (and more importantly, predicts new data better) than Creationism/Intelligent Design. This commentary brings me back to the 1970's where these same objections were originally raised.
I remember enthusiastically reading back then about the fact that primates have a totally different number of chromosomes than humans. And the author went on to predict that when we map the genome of these species, the differences would be even more irreconcilable.
This stuck in my head as one of the few times that any non-obvious predictions had ever been made by these guys. (And I was already secretly gloating that they would be proved right.) But flash-forward to 2006 (with help from Wikipedia): Chromosome 2 is widely accepted to be a result of an end-to-end fusion of two ancestral chromosomes. The evidence for this includes:
1) The correspondence of chromosome 2 to two ape chromosomes. The closest human relative, the chimpanzee, has near-identical DNA sequences to human chromosome 2, but they are found in two separate chromosomes. The same is true of the more distant gorilla and orangutan.
2) The presence of a vestigial centromere. Normally a chromosome has just one centromere, but in chromosome 2 we see remnants of a second.
3) The presence of vestigial telomeres. These are normally found only at the ends of a chromosome, but in chromosome 2 we see additional telomere sequences in the middle.
In the 70's, I was predicting not only order and beauty, but primates and man clearly and irreconcilably separated into two kinds. In 2006, I got neither. The genome is trashy and thrown together from chunks of ape ancestors.