From: Josh Bembenek (jbembe@hotmail.com)
Date: Tue May 13 2003 - 17:55:32 EDT
Dr. Campbell Wrote: Pseudogenes can be both molecular fossils and
functional elements. They do serve a clear function by providing potential
raw material for evolution, but that function does not get one very far in
trying to argue against evolution. As several other possible mechanisms for
regulating gene expression are known, it does not seem as though pseudogenes
are essential for gene regulation. However, their use for that purpose fits
well with the expectation that evolution would work with existing materials
and put them to use.
"Possible mechansims" is quite different than actual discovery of their
function. You might read the work, if you think pseudogenes aren't
essential for gene regulation. In at least one case, that statement is
false. I wrote in my original statement, that of course for the adamant
evolutionist, this data is just as expected as if we find that there is no
function for a pseudogene, thus the plasticity and adaptability or
evolvability of evolutionary theory. See the following for specific reasons
this finding is interesting:
http://www.discovery.org/viewDB/index.php3?command=view&id=1448&program=CRSC
and reference 2 found here:
http://biomed.brown.edu/Faculty/M/Miller/TR/Lifes-Design.html
Josh
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