Bernie - I have to agree more with Keith on this one. Other than folks
who are already tuned into this argument, how many folks do you think
would have a string that would resonate to "pseudogenes"? Most would
wonder, either verbally or silently, "What was that word again?"
Fossils they know; sue-do-whatever is another matter.
This is much the same problem as one I've spoken to in the past, namely
that scientific arguments don't do as much good as reasonably sound
plausibility arguments, using familiar language. The tradition and
consensus based distrust factor clouds any other less familiar basis
for explanation or argument.
JimA [Friend of ASA]
Dehler, Bernie wrote:
In watching
some Kenneth Miller videos
awhile back, he was sharing the mantra “We have the fossils; we win.”
I don’t
think it is a good evolutionist
mantra, because a YEC can say “We have the same fossils; we just
interpret them
differently.”
My
suggestion for evolutionists is to say “We
have pseudogenes; we win.” The Young Earther’s don’t have a valid
response for
explaining pseudogenes, and there are thousands of them in the human
genome
(not to mention in all the other animal genomes too).
…Bernie
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