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Similarities between different forms of life can now be measured with sophisticated genetic techniques.

Proteins. ??Genetic distances? can be calculated by taking a specific protein and examining the sequence of its components. The fewer changes needed to convert a protein of one organism into the corresponding protein of another organism, supposedly the closer their relationship. These studies seriously contradict the theory of evolution {a}.

An early computer-based study of cytochrome c, a protein used in energy production, compared 47 different forms of life. This study found many contradictions with evolution based on this one protein. For example, according to evolution, the rattlesnake should have been most closely related to other reptiles. Instead, of these 47 forms (all that were sequenced at that time), the one most similar to the rattlesnake was man (b). Since this study, experts have discovered hundreds of similar contradictions (c).

a. Dr. Colin Patterson??Senior Principal Scientific Officer in the Palaeontology Department at the British Museum (Natural History)??gave a talk on 5 November 1981 to leading evolutionists at the American Museum of Natural History. He compared the amino acid sequences in several proteins of different animals. The relationships of these animals, according to evolutionary theory, have been taught in classrooms for decades. Patterson explained to a stunned audience that this new information contradicts the theory of evolution. In his words, ??The theory makes a prediction; we??ve tested it, and the prediction is falsified precisely.? Although he acknowledged that scientific falsification is never absolute, he admitted ??evolution was a faith,? he was ??duped into taking evolutionism as revealed truth in some way,? and ??evolution not only conveys no knowledge but seems somehow to convey anti-knowledge, apparent knowledge which is harmful to systematics [the science of classifying different forms of life].? ??Prominent British Scientist Challenges Evolution Theory,? Audio Tape Transcription and Summary by Luther D. Sunderland, personal communication. For other statements from Patterson??s presentation see: Tom Bethell, ??Agnostic Evolutionists,? Harper??s Magazine, February 1985, pp. 49??61.

??... it seems disconcerting that many exceptions exist to the orderly progression of species as determined by molecular homologies ...? Christian Schwabe, ??On the Validity of Molecular Evolution,? Trends in Biochemical Sciences, July 1986, p. 280.

??It appears that the neo-darwinian hypothesis is insufficient to explain some of the observations that were not available at the time the paradigm [the theory of evolution] took shape?.One might ask why the neo-darwinian paradigm does not weaken or disappear if it is at odds with critical factual information. The reasons are not necessarily scientific ones but rather may be rooted in human nature.? Ibid., p. 282.

??Evolutionary trees constructed by studying biological molecules often don??t resemble those drawn up from morphology.? Trisha Gura, ??Bones, Molecules ... or Both?? Nature, Vol. 406, 20 July 2000, p. 230.

b. Robert Bayne Brown, Abstracts: 31st International Science and Engineering Fair (Washington D.C.: Science Service, 1980), p. 113.

Ginny Gray, ??Student Project ??Rattles?? Science Fair Judges,? Issues and Answers, December 1980, p. 3.

While the rattlesnake??s cytochrome c was most similar to man??s, man??s cytochrome c was most similar to that of the rhesus monkey. (If this seems like a contradiction, consider that City B could be the closest city to City A, but City C might be the closest city to City B.)

c. ??As morphologists with high hopes of molecular systematics, we end this survey with our hopes dampened. Congruence between molecular phylogenies is as elusive as it is in morphology and as it is between molecules and morphology.? Colin Patterson et al., p. 179.

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