Page 145 - The Errors the American National Academy of Sciences

The NAS's Error in Portraying Molecular Biology as
Evidence of Evolution

Creator Who creates and designs all living things, for which reason it
is only to be expected that they all should consist of the same basic
features and structures.

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In the chapter "New Evidence from Molecular Biology," the ex-
amples of the molecules hemoglobin and myoglobin are cited, and it
is suggested that there is an evolutionary relationship between the
two. The claim takes this form in the NAS book: "each chain [that
make up hemoglobin] has a heme [group] exactly like that of myoglo-
bin, and each of the four chains in the hemoglobin molecule is folded
exactly like myoglobin. It was immediately obvious in 1959 that the
Above: A myoglobin molecule
Right: A hemoglobin molecule
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