Saturday, April 6, 2024

Creation Moment 4/7/2024 - The lowdown on that "500,000,000" years old gene

Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, .... Romans 1:21

"The lowdown on the ScienceDaily announcement, “Giving Ancient Life Another Chance to Evolve: Scientists Place 500-Million-Year-Old Gene in Modern Organism.” But this announcement is extremely misleading, and typical of the shameless hype that so often accompanies breaking news in evolutionary biology.

The so-called “500-million-year-old gene” is an artificially
engineered DNA sequence based on an inference from a hypothetical phylogenetic tree about what the ancestral sequence might have been.


The procedure was this: Two groups of evolutionary biologists constructed hypothetical phylogenetic trees of bacteria, based on similarities and differences in their DNA. 
A third group inferred from these hypothetical trees the DNA sequence of what they believed to be the ancestral version of a
particular gene, and the group featured by
Science Dailyresurrected” the hypothetical ancestral gene by synthesizing its inferred DNA sequence in the laboratory.

The artificial gene was not 500 million years old. In fact, its inferred DNA sequence, like the phylogenetic trees on which the inference was based, depended heavily on the neo-Darwinian assumptions with which the researchers began. Like so much other arguments for Darwinian evolution, this began by assuming evolution is true.

Q: Does anyone know what Darwinists would do if it occurred to them that Darwinism is nonsense?"
Denyse O'Lear