KHouse eNews
For The Week Of February 27, 2001
HUMAN GENOME PROJECT GENERATES
VARIED CONCLUSIONS
The announcement of the completion of human genome mapping has
brought some interesting, if not amusing, contradictory responses from
the scientific community. These differences reveal the growing
chasm opening between scientists over the subject of origins, and
the "end of science." Scientists are being confronted
more and more by the fact that science has failed to answer core
questions regarding the origins of the universe and life, and the
evidence is contradicting much of what has been traditionally believed
about Darwinism.
Two articles, which appeared on February 16, 2000, were directly
contradictory to each other as they featured the reactions of
scientists to the genome-mapping project.
The first article, entitled “Darwin Vindicated,” was written by
Dr. Arthur Caplan, Ph.D., Director of the Center for Bioethics at the
University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, in which the professor
asserts that “the genome reveals, indisputably and beyond any serious
doubt, that Darwin was right -- mankind evolved over a long period of
time from primitive animal ancestors. Our genes show that
scientific creationism cannot be true. The response to all those who
thump their Bible and say there is no proof, no test and no evidence in
support of evolution is, ‘The proof is right here, in our genes.’”
From reading the article, one would be sure that science had once and
for all proven the Bible wrong. However, Professor Caplan did not
work on the genome project. On, the same day, the San Francisco
Chronicle published an article entitled, “Human Genome Map Has
Scientists Talking About the Divine.” It featured an interview with
Dr. Gene Myers, Ph.D., the computer scientist at the Maryland
headquarters of Celera Genomics, who actually worked out the genome
mapping.
Dr. Myers said, “We're deliciously complex at the molecular
level...We don't understand ourselves yet, which is cool. There's
still a metaphysical, magical element.” Dr. Myers went on to
say, “What really astounds me is the architecture of life...the system
is extremely complex. It's like it was designed.”
As to whether this implicated a designer Dr. Myers said, “There's a
huge intelligence there. I don't see that as being unscientific. Others
may, but not me.”
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