Re: The Evolution Thread
Evolution is one of my favorite subjects within Biology. Cladistics allows one to see the map of life, and without it, the patterns of Biology are meaningless. You can hardly even make sense of a newly sequenced genome without comparing it to its relatives. The functions of its proteins will be difficult to infer without comparisons with closely related proteins.
Young earth creationism is probably one of my biggest hot buttons. It's become my litmus test for sanity when it comes to religious people. If you can acknowledge the countless perfect confirmations of the phylogenetic tree, then you're alright. We can at least speak with one another as fellow denizens of reality.
Evolution is one of my favorite subjects within Biology. Cladistics allows one to see the map of life, and without it, the patterns of Biology are meaningless. You can hardly even make sense of a newly sequenced genome without comparing it to its relatives. The functions of its proteins will be difficult to infer without comparisons with closely related proteins.
Young earth creationism is probably one of my biggest hot buttons. It's become my litmus test for sanity when it comes to religious people. If you can acknowledge the countless perfect confirmations of the phylogenetic tree, then you're alright. We can at least speak with one another as fellow denizens of reality.
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