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......The emerging concept that homologous recombination is a highly regulated and controlled feature of the genome limited to specific hotspots contradicts the idea of random evolutionary processes being able to produce new genes.
We also know that the key regulatory parts of the genome that are critical for gene function are protected from recombination processes. This scientific discovery is a virtual death blow to any idea that recombination can serve as a random tinkering tool to create new genes and gene functions.- Dr. Jeffrey Thomkins Phd
The man's an idiot.
Yes, the gene is protected and conserved, especially in key areas such as, say, the HOX genes (central to formation of the body plan.)
And yet, mutations occur. CANCER occurs, asshole!
People are born with two heads. Not often, but if numbnuts ever did the math, he'd realize that "not often" becomes "quite often enough" when repeated over 50 million years.
Plus, idiot is contradicting himself. First he says that parts of the gene are regulated and controlled, limiting most mutation to hotspots. THEN he goes on to describe mutation as a random process.
Hello! Anyone in there? If it is restricted and controlled, it is FUCKING NON-RANDOM.
And THIS is one of the basic lessons real scientists have been trying to get across to Creotards like him. That it isn't a wide-open free-for-all; that changes in gene and expression happen in statistically defined ways. Not all pathways are equal.
(Note the inclusion of "statistically" in there -- boffo up there confuses "rarely" with "never." Swapping entire chunks between chromosomes is not rare. Fusion is. But BOTH HAPPEN.)
