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The Errors of the American National Academy of Sciences

traditionally considered intermediate between fish and the other
terrestrial vertebrates, are in molecular terms as far from fish as any
group of reptiles or mammals. 28
As we have seen, the "facts" from molecular biology that the
NAS portrays as evidence for the theory of evolution are all either er-
rors or else deliberate distortions by evolutionist scientists.

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Another of the aspects of molecular biology that the NAS repre-
sents as proof of the theory of evolution is the sequences of DNA
known as "pseudogenes," which are claimed to have no function.
(Science and Creationism, p. 20)
As we know, the proteins in an organism's body are produced by
means of the information coded in its genes. Pseudogenes are as-
sumed to play no role in the production of protein, or anything else,
and are therefore regarded as "functionless."
The concept of pseudogenes is actually part of the "junk DNA"
thesis, which maintains that there are parts of DNA which serve no
purpose. The fact is, however, that this thesis was revealed to be to-
tally mistaken by a series of discoveries beginning in the second half
of the 1990s. The DNA sequences that were alleged to be "junk" were
all found, one by one, to perform very important functions in cells
and the body. Findings from 1992 revealed that the genes described as
junk actually contained vital codes with information about the gen-
eral structure of the body and about the timing of when other genes
should be switched on and off. According to the Washington Post,

"Key scientists said the new discoveries were likely to force them to
abandon the term 'Junk DNA.' " 29
Then again, even if there really were pseudogenes within the
cell, they would still avail the theory of evolution nothing.
The reason why evolutionists regard pseudogenes as proof of

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