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60 Nonsensical Nature of the Molecular Homology Thesis, The

tile class, is sig nif i cant ly great er than mit that he hasn't been able to ob tain
that be tween rep re sent a tives of very any ev i dence for ev o lu tion at any
dif fer ent class es. The above dif fer - point. In one ar ti cle in Science mag a -
ence, for ex am ple, is great er than the zine, he writes:
dif fer ence of 17 ami no ac ids be tween Molecular ev o lu tion is about to be ac -
chick ens and eels, the dif fer ence of cept ed as a meth od su pe ri or to pa le on -
16 ami no ac ids be tween hors es and tol o gy for the dis cov ery of ev o lu tion a ry
sharks, or even the dif fer ence of 15 re la tion ships. As a mo lec u lar ev o lu -
ami no ac id be tween dogs and worm tion ist, I should be elat ed. Instead, it
flies, which are mem bers of two to - seems dis con cert ing that many ex cep -
tions ex ist to the or der ly pro gres sion of
tal ly dif fer ent phy la.
spe cies as de ter mined by mo lec u lar ho -
A sim i lar state of af fairs al so ap -
mol o gies: so many in fact, that I think
plies to he mo glo bin. The se quence of
the ex cep tion, the quirks, may car ry
this pro tein in hu man be ings dif fers
the more im por tant mes sage. 56
from that in le murs by 20 ami no ac -
Schwabe's re search in to re lax in
ids and from that in pigs by on ly 14.
pro duced most in ter est ing re sults:
The po si tion is more or less the same
for oth er pro teins. 55 Against this back ground of high var i a -
bil i ty be tween re lax ins from pur port -
Evolutionists should there fore
ed ly close ly re lat ed spe cies, the re lax -
con clude that in ev o lu tion a ry terms,
ins of pig and whale are all but iden ti -
a hu man be ing is clos er to the kan ga -
cal. The mol e cu les de rived from rats,
roo than the horse or to the pig than
guin ea-pigs, man and pigs are as dis -
the le mur.
tant from each oth er (ap prox i mate ly
Dr. Christian Schwabe is a pro -
55%) . . . Insulin, how e ver, brings
fes sor at de part ment of bi o chem is try
man and pig phy lo ge net i cal ly clos er
at Medical University of South to geth er than chim pan zee and man. 57
Carolina and a sci en tist who has de -
Schwabe states that his com par i -
vot ed many years to seek ing ev i -
son of ly soz ymes, cy to chromes and
dence of ev o lu tion in the mo lec u lar
many hor mones and ami no ac id
sphere. In par tic u lar, he has car ried
strings re vealed un ex pect ed re sults
out stud ies on the pro teins in su lin
and ab nor mal i ties from the ev o lu -
and re lax in in an at tempt to con -
tion a ry point of view. Based on all
struct ev o lu tion a ry re la tion ships be -
this ev i dence, Schwabe main tains
tween liv ing things. Several times,
that all pro teins pos sess their same,
how e ver, he has been forced to ad -
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