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

ternally and with other evolutionary trees. For example, a recent arti-
cle entitled "How Reliable Are Human Phylogenetic Hypotheses?,"
authored by M. Collard and Bernard Wood and published in the
NAS's own publication, PNAS, makes clear that according to the evo-
lutionary tree constructed on the basis of pseudogenes, human beings

emerged before chimpanzees and gorillas. However, according to the
evolutionists' own claims, the chimpanzee and gorilla emerged be-
fore man. 44
Of course, inconsistencies of this kind are not peculiar to com-
parisons made among the human-chimpanzee-gorilla threesome. For
instance, an attempt has been made to construct a general primate
phylogeny (evolutionary tree) by comparing
beta globin molecule data. It was observed,
however, that two pieces of data were con-

tradictory. 45
In another study, Alu sequences re-
vealed that lemurs (a small primate

Molecular comparisons between
human beings, chimpanzees, and goril-
las show that man and apes did not
evolve from a common ancestor. These
analyses invalidate the claims of the
theory of evolution.

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