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Author Topic:   Genetic Redundancy and Natural Selection
Coragyps
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Message 26 of 37 (565301)
06-15-2010 10:11 PM
Reply to: Message 24 by BobTHJ
06-15-2010 9:59 PM


If the YEC model is correct we should see more degeneration of the genome (ie a higher rate of disease, cancer, loss of function, declining lifespans etc.) as time progresses. The semi-recent revolution in medicine has staved this off to some extent...
So fast-replicating critters like houseflies and Staphlococcus that also tend to get the short end of the stick on most health-care plans are at the brink of extinction now, ridden with cancer and ever-shorter lifespans? I hadn't noticed that trend, Bob - do you have any documentation of it?
AbE: what Coyote said ^ about pernicious.
Edited by Coragyps, : No reason given.

"The wretched world lies now under the tyranny of foolishness; things are believed by Christians of such absurdity as no one ever could aforetime induce the heathen to believe." - Agobard of Lyons, ca. 830 AD

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