I have compared thee, O my love, to a company of horses in Pharaoh's chariots.
Song of Solomon 1:9
"In an attempt to discover the lineage of horses, over one hundred researchers have recently examined the genomes of over two hundred fossil horses and compared them to the genomes of modern horses.
Their results indicate that horses have lost a lot of genetic diversity—much of it within the last two hundred years.
The average loss among modern breeds of horses when compared to their horse ancestors is over 16%.
The frequency of coat colors, such as spotted, have also decreased. Even more interestingly, the horse Y chromosome has suffered a similar drop in diversity in the last millennium. It is estimated that the horse Y chromosome has suffered an up to ten-fold loss of heterozygosity since Renaissance times alone. This would seem to indicate that there has been significant selective breeding since that time. This selection appears to have just been for stallions, as there is no mention of the X chromosome in mares being affected.
This study also postulated that there were two previously unknown horse species that inhabited areas of the world where the domestic horse and Przewalski’s horse are not commonly found, based on genetic analysis of fossils found in habitats where living horses are not found. One of these species, Equus lenensis, is believed to have lived in Siberia. The other is a complete unknown and had never been seen before, yet it exhibited a very different set of mitochondrial DNA. The researchers called this horse part of a “ghost lineage.”
While speculating that this “ghost” horse may have originated in Iberia, the researchers do not attempt to speculate where this ghost lineage interbred with the rest of the horses.
This study indirectly illustrates just how damaging genetics is to evolutionary dogma. Due to either selective breeding or simply extinction, much information has been lost from the original horse kind. ..... the information loss they demonstrate is deadly to the evolutionary claims.
For example, a bacterial genome consists of about 3.65 million base pairs on average.
The horse genome averages 2.7 billion base pairs.
To get to a horse from a bacterium would require a nearly a hundredfold increase in the amount of information available to the bacteria. Now, obviously no evolutionist argues that horses evolved directly from a bacterium, but the point remains. Adding that much information, even in the stepwise process evolution proposes, is simply inconceivable. No known natural process can add any information to a genome, let alone increase it nearly a hundredfold.
However, there are several known processes that actively decrease the amount of information in the genome.
--If a species goes extinct, information is lost.
--Selective breeding can also remove information."
AIG
Song of Solomon 1:9
"In an attempt to discover the lineage of horses, over one hundred researchers have recently examined the genomes of over two hundred fossil horses and compared them to the genomes of modern horses.
Their results indicate that horses have lost a lot of genetic diversity—much of it within the last two hundred years.
The average loss among modern breeds of horses when compared to their horse ancestors is over 16%.
In other words,
modern breeds of horses have 16%
less available options than their ancestors.
For example, the frequency of the gene for slower speeds, which likely has some fitness benefits, has drastically decreased, as humans bred horses for speed.  |
| Just IMAGINE the POSSIBILITIES that may have been IF we go back far enough to before the GENETIC BOTTLENECK of the FLOOD. Think of the ALL the Genetic INFO Lost for all this Diversity in shape, size and color.... |
The frequency of coat colors, such as spotted, have also decreased. Even more interestingly, the horse Y chromosome has suffered a similar drop in diversity in the last millennium. It is estimated that the horse Y chromosome has suffered an up to ten-fold loss of heterozygosity since Renaissance times alone. This would seem to indicate that there has been significant selective breeding since that time. This selection appears to have just been for stallions, as there is no mention of the X chromosome in mares being affected.
This study also postulated that there were two previously unknown horse species that inhabited areas of the world where the domestic horse and Przewalski’s horse are not commonly found, based on genetic analysis of fossils found in habitats where living horses are not found. One of these species, Equus lenensis, is believed to have lived in Siberia. The other is a complete unknown and had never been seen before, yet it exhibited a very different set of mitochondrial DNA. The researchers called this horse part of a “ghost lineage.”
While speculating that this “ghost” horse may have originated in Iberia, the researchers do not attempt to speculate where this ghost lineage interbred with the rest of the horses.
This study indirectly illustrates just how damaging genetics is to evolutionary dogma. Due to either selective breeding or simply extinction, much information has been lost from the original horse kind. ..... the information loss they demonstrate is deadly to the evolutionary claims.
For example, a bacterial genome consists of about 3.65 million base pairs on average.
The horse genome averages 2.7 billion base pairs.
To get to a horse from a bacterium would require a nearly a hundredfold increase in the amount of information available to the bacteria. Now, obviously no evolutionist argues that horses evolved directly from a bacterium, but the point remains. Adding that much information, even in the stepwise process evolution proposes, is simply inconceivable. No known natural process can add any information to a genome, let alone increase it nearly a hundredfold.
However, there are several known processes that actively decrease the amount of information in the genome.
--If a species goes extinct, information is lost.
--Selective breeding can also remove information."
AIG
