Junk DNA goodbye!: Chimp human splicing differs (Introduction)

by David Turell , Saturday, May 28, 2016, 21:33 (2883 days ago) @ David Turell

As an additional point to discussion introns and splicing, there is a huge difference in chimp DNA splicing and ours. They do very little, we do a lot:-http://darwins-god.blogspot.com/2016/05/the-naked-ape-open-letter-to-biologos_27.html-"When it was discovered that the human genome contained about twenty five thousand genes it seemed too few. Are not more genes required for a human body? More recently it has been discovered that we make up for that small number of genes with alternative splicing schemes. Most of our genes may undergo such editing, and the result can be a completely different function for the resulting protein.- "We have an enormous alternative splicing program in our cells, far more than chimps have. And this is another inconsistency with evolutionary theory.-"Given the high similarity between the chimp and human genomes, and the relatively few beneficial mutations in protein-coding genes (discussed above), evolutionists have considered the possibility of evolution by splicing. In other words, our enormous alternative splicing program may have been an important factor in our evolving from a small, primitive ape.- "But there are many thousands of these gene splicing changes that would have to evolve. And unlike bacteria whose populations are large and generation times are short, our gene splicing changes would have to evolve in smaller populations with longer generation times.- "It is difficult to see how evolution would have the resources to make this happen. The problem quickly becomes astronomically improbable if groups of genes would need to implement their new splicing logic together. And how could that not be the case?-"In fact, even if only the order of implementing splicing for a small number of genes is important, the problem quickly becomes astronomically improbable. And again, how could that not be the case?-" But this is only the beginning. In addition to the fact that the evolution of our enormous gene splicing changes is unlikely, it also represents an enormous serendipity problem. We would have to say that random mutations constructed complicated genes, with exons and introns and splicing codes, and the incredible splicing machinery, which, it would just so happen, would luckily be just what was needed to evolve humans.-" It is even worse than this when one considers the exons themselves. Those random mutations would have divided the genetic instructions into so many exons, and it just so happened that they would be the right building blocks that, when rearranged, would lead to humans. The serendipity is astronomical here."-Comment: This is part of a large blog article from Dr. Hunter, who does not believe in Darwin common descent, but what he describes in genomic evolution from the chimp is a saltation! And I'm with him. God did it, perhaps through a complexification mechanism or by direct dabble.