Question About Creationists

[Anomalocaris]

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Reading comprehension isn't one of your strong points is it?


Summarized from

Chen, F.C. & Li, W.H. Genomic divergences between humans and other hominoids and the effective population size of the common ancestor of humans and chimpanzees. American journal of human genetics 68, 444-56 (2001).

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Is you comprehension lacking? Have you ever heard of sample size?

Excerpt from abstract of said study...

To study the genomic divergences among hominoids and to estimate the effective population size of the common ancestor of humans and chimpanzees, we selected 53 autosomal intergenic nonrepetitive DNA segments from the human genome and sequenced them in a human, a chimpanzee, a gorilla, and an orangutan.

Do you know what that means when it says they selected 53 segments? But wait they tell us how long these 53 segments are...

The sequence divergences in other regions between hominoids were estimated from extensive data in GenBank and the literature, and Alus showed the highest divergence, followed in order by Y-linked noncoding regions, pseudogenes, autosomal intergenic regions, X-linked noncoding regions, synonymous sites, introns, and nonsynonymous sites. The neighbor-joining tree derived from the concatenated sequence of the 53 segments--24,234 bp in length--supports the Homo-Pan clade with a 100% bootstrap value

24,234 base pairs...out of 3 billion possible...which corroborates another point I made earlier...

It is far beyond your christian understanding, but probably not beyond the understanding of moderately retarded 6 year old.

The basic idea is if a significant statistical majority of a population of 3 billion were to not possess a certain trait, the probability would be astronomical against a statistical majority of any random sample of 24,234 from that population happening to exhibit that same statistical trait. This is why sampling works.

But because real statistical analysis of any experimental result would actually be illuminating, it is therefore forbidden to christian understanding less the comfortingly obscuring veil of the bronze age bullshit called christianity be pierced.

So go and pick your nose with your bible.