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Author Topic:   Evidence against chromosome 2 fusion???
Taq
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Message 3 of 10 (688400)
01-22-2013 10:46 AM


More than one step
I would strongly recommend that you check out this well written blog post by Carl Zimmer:
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/...m-facebook-creationists
As it turns out, the fusion in humans was not as simple as some make it out to be, and the homologous chromosomes in chimps continued to evolve since we split from our common ancestor. As you will see from one of the illustrations towards the end, the fusion even in humans resulted in a deletions of one major region which may account for the discrepencancies they are pointing to.

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01-31-2013 5:04 PM


Argument from Incredulity
The ICR argument seems to boil down to one fallacy,
"1.The reputed fusion site is located in a peri-centric region with suppressed recombination and should exhibit a reasonable degree of tandem telomere motif conservation. Instead, the region is highly degeneratea notable feature reported by a previous investigation."
Chromosome 2 Fusion 2 - creation.com
They are incredulous that the region could have accumulated that many mutations since the fusion. It is an argument from incredulity. Once this fallacy is thrown out many of the ICR arguments go away.

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