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The Dinosaur Genome

8/27/2019

 
PictureEvolutionary view of the origin of dinosaurs
Genesis 1:24
“And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.”

The BBC recently reported on its website that scientists from the University of Kent had mapped the genome of a dinosaur. The BBC’s article was not clear on which dinosaur but claimed it was a very early dinosaur – one of the precursors to all dinosaurs.

There was a great deal of excitement when scientists previously mapped the genomes of humans and chimpanzees. This led to the disingenuous and misleading claim that humans and chimps share 98% of their DNA.

But, given that there are no confirmed live dinosaurs in captivity, how was it possible for dinosaur DNA to be mapped? The BBC’s science correspondent reports:

Recently, Prof Darren Griffin’s team used mathematical techniques to identify the possible genetic characteristics of the very first dinosaurs. They did this by working backwards from their closest modern-day relatives – birds and turtles.

Did you spot the undefined false presuppositions in that quote? There is a strong presupposition that both birds and turtles are close relatives of early dinosaurs. However, this is a very big assumption and is not based on any reliable experimental data. Just in case you think this is simply the opinion of a science journalist, this is what the researchers said:

It is perhaps not an unreasonable speculation that both karyotypic and molecular cytogenetic analysis would reveal little difference from a modern chicken, duck or ostrich species.

It is precisely this speculation that creation science finds untenable. Instead of speculation, we build our models on the solid ground of biblical truth.

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