Thursday, May 08, 2008
Intelligent Design vs The Platypus
My choice would be the Platypus, hands down any day of the week. Recent DNA research shows that to be where the smart money is.
If it has a bill and webbed feet like a duck, lays eggs like a bird or a reptile but also produces milk and has a coat of fur like a mammal, what could the genetics of the duck-billed platypus possibly be like? Well, just as peculiar: an amalgam of genes reflecting significant branching and transitions in evolution.Let's face it, any God that would design a fur bearing, lactating, egg laying, venom producing, duck billed, web footed animal must have been nursing the Mother of All Hangovers at the time.
An international scientific team, which announced the first decoding of the platypus genome on Wednesday, said the findings provided “many clues to the function and evolution of all mammalian genomes,” including that of humans, and should “inspire rapid advances in other investigations of mammalian biology and evolution.”
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