Re: only 50 genes away
Moorad Alexanian (alexanian@UNCWIL.EDU)
Wed, 21 Oct 1998 16:16:00 -0500 (EST)
At 05:18 AM 10/20/98 -0500, Glenn R. Morton wrote:
>There is an article in the NY Times today that says that humans may only be
>50 developmental genes different from chimpanzees. It talks about the
>possibility of inserting those 50 genes into a chimp embryo and seeing what
>happens. It can be found at
>
>http://www.nytimes.com/library/national/science/102098sci-chimps.html
>
>Question: Assuming (big if) that such a set of insertions actually moved
>the chimp toward the human form and cognition, what would people opposed to
>evolution then say to maintain the anti-evolutionary position? Would
>anti-evolutionary Christians finally be forced to admit that evolution
>might have occurred?
>glenn
>
>Adam, Apes and Anthropology
>Foundation, Fall and Flood
>& lots of creation/evolution information
>http://www.isource.net/~grmorton/dmd.htm
Dear Glenn,
What is the developmental genes difference between woman and man? How
feasible is it to turn a man into a woman? I suppose it should be easier
than turning a man into a chimp or vice versa.
Moorad