<HTML>>I have asked this question to more creationists than I care to remember:
>do you know what homeobox genes are and how they function.
I hope you will forgive me, this is not directly a reply to you, but you give me the opportunity to express something I have been thinking about for a long time.
Talking about genes, granted we know a few things about them (and those homeobox genes are a good example of how evolution can come up with something as complex as what we observe), but what I can't believe is how a few scientists (or rather a few companies) feed the media with announces telling the public that we are almost done decoding the human genome.
This is a LIE, what we've been doing is akin to dumping the bytecode of a software, and saying we've decoded it. It's misleading, it makes the rest of the population think that we're much more advanced than we actually are, but it certainly makes investor invest in those companies.
I can dump kernel32.dll from windows and say I've decoded it, I would be lying, but I can. Then I can change a bit in it, run windows again and see it crash. I can then declare that 'I have found the bit that makes it crash this or this way'.
Misleading.
Dishonnest.
... or Naive
Somehow I highly, very very highly doubt they are as naive as they would need to be for making such claims.
But in the event that they were, i would strongly suggest Geneticists should be forced to attend a course in software reverse engineering, it wouldn't teach them anything about genes, but I believe it would make them less bold in their assertions.
Fortunately few geneticists, when you talk with them, are actually believing in the intrinsic value of a dna dump. This is not to say that the dump will not be the key to subsequent discoveries. But the genome HAS NOT BEEN decoded.
(Ahhhh, I had that in the back of my head for quite a while, I'm happy it got out)
Francis.</HTML>
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