(July 15, 2014 at 2:07 pm)JesusHChrist Wrote:(July 15, 2014 at 1:48 pm)SteveII Wrote: Near the end of the article, they have a section: There are three possible reasons why a gene can be an orphan gene.
1. The genes have newly evolved
2. The gene was an ancestrally shared gene but got lost in most evolutionary lineages.
3. The gene evolved so quickly that a similarity cannot be found in other species.
1. The genes have newly evolved
2. The gene was an ancestrally shared gene but got lost in most evolutionary lineages.
3. The gene evolved so quickly that a similarity cannot be found in other species.
4. Jeebus
There. That better?
I didn't say the fourth option was God. I said the fourth option was that they didn't have a common ancestor. This is still a scientific explanation. Not to include it means you have made a philosophical decision that naturalism is true (which science is not capable of making on its own).