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From: js2j@mhuxt.UUCP (sonntag)
Newsgroups: net.origins
Subject: Re: The Scientific Case for Creation: (Part 17)
Message-ID: <877@mhuxt.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 20-May-85 14:18:52 EDT
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Posted: Mon May 20 14:18:52 1985
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Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill
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>        29.  Computer-generated  comparisons  have  been  made  of  the
>             sequences  of  amino acids that comprise a protein that is
>             common to almost all forms of animal and plant  life.  The
>             results of this study seriously contradict the predictions
>             of the theory of evolution [a-d].

    You wouldn't mind telling us a few details about this, would you, Ron?
Like, maybe, what the results of this study were, and how it contradicts the
predictions of the theory of evolution?  
    Without these details, item #29 here is simply another unsupported 
statement.  I'm usually willing to accept things like: 'These guys did this
study and got these results, which, as you can see, contradict the predictions
made by evolution.' (unless I've got good reason to doubt their results, like
they're contradictory to many other studies.)  But there's no way I'm going
to accept something like: 'These guys did this study, got some results, and
interpret them as contradicting the predictions of the theory of evolution.
And by the way, I'm not going to tell you what the study was about or what
their results were or just what points of the theory of evolution are 
contradicted.'
    And no, I'm not going down run down to the library to look up the
references for the answers to these questions.  If you're trying to convince
us, that's your job.  Though it seems likely that *if* the answers to these
questions, when analyzed objectively, were supportive of your position, you
would have included them in your origional posting.
-- 
Jeff Sonntag
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