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58 Nonsensical Nature of the Molecular Homology Thesis, The

spe cies and class es are com pared, it
clear ly emer ges that any sim i lar i ties
or dif fer en ces are in com pat i ble with
any ev o lu tion a ry log ic or link.
According to the ev o lu tion ist the sis,
there must be a grad u al in crease in
spe cies' com plex i ty, and so is al so to
be ex pect ed that the num ber of chro -
mo somes es tab lish ing this ge net ic
in for ma tion will grad u al ly in crease.
However, the da ta ac tu al ly ob tained
show that this is a mere fan ta sy.
Comparisons based on chro mo some
num bers and DNA struc tures show that For ex am ple, al though a to ma to
no ev o lu tion a ry re la tion ship can be es - has 24 chro mo somes, the co pe pod
tab lished be tween dif fer ent spe cies..
crab—an or gan ism with far more
com plex sys tems—has on ly six. The
oth er or gan isms, our bod ies de vel op
sin gle-celled crea ture Euglena has 45
by con sum ing pro teins, blood flows
chro mo somes, com pared to the al li -
through their bod ies, and we pro -
ga tor, which has on ly 32. In ad di -
duce en er gy at ev ery mo ment by us -
tion, Radiolaria, mi cro scop ic or gan -
ing of ox y gen.
isms, have more than 800 chro mo -
Therefore, the fact that liv ing
somes.
things are ge net i cal ly sim i lar can not
Theodosius Dobzhansky, a fa -
be used to ar gue that they evolved
mous ev o lu tion a ry the o re ti cian, says
from a com mon an ces tor. If ev o lu -
that this un reg u lat ed re la tion ship
tion ists wish to ver i fy the the o ry of
be tween liv ing things and their
ev o lu tion from a com mon an ces tor,
DNAs is a ma jor prob lem that ev o lu -
they have to dem on strate a line of
tion can not ex plain:
de scent on the mo lec u lar lev el. Yet
More com plex or gan isms gen er al ly
ev o lu tion ists have no such con crete
have more DNA per cell than do sim -
find ing.
pler ones, but this rule has con spic u -
In fact, when the da ta ob tained as
ous ex cep tions. Man is no where near
a re sult of the anal y sis of DNA and
the top of the list, be ing ex ceed ed by
chro mo somes be long ing to var i ous
Amphiuma (an am phib i an),

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