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From: garys@bunker.UUCP (Gary M. Samuelson)
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Subject: Re: Re: The Scientific Case for Creation: (Part 5)
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Date: Fri, 19-Apr-85 15:37:55 EST
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>     What about all of the biochemical evidence showing that enzymes from
> closely related species are much more similar to each other than enzymes
> which perform the same function in other, more distantly related species?
> Are we supposed to write this off to coincidence, or should we assume that
> God set things up this way in order to fool us into thinking that evolution
> is correct?

Actually, I write it off as circular reasoning.  "Closely related
species?"  Assuming that species are "related," and further that
some such relations are "close" and others are "distant" sounds
like you have assumed that which you wish to prove.

> Jeff Sonntag
> ihnp4!mhuxt!js2j

Gary Samuelson