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I haven’t seen the lecture in question, so I don’t know what his slide projector showed or didn’t show, and it seems that your objection to this evidence is with the evidence itself rather how the evidence is portrayed on a slide projector.I have watched the video of Kenneth Miller’s talk, at least most of it and not really surprisingly, I found that proponents of Darwinian evolution like himself have a knack for story telling… and twisting their “scientific facts” quite a bit in the stories that they tell.
For instance, in explaining why human beings have 46 chromosomes instead of 48 as in the case of apes, he says that “one pair of chromosomes must have gotten fused” at some point along the evolutionary process.
Did he actually witnessed such a fusion taking place for him to be so certain of it?
And then he goes on to show a slide of such a “fused chromosome” whereby 2 centromeres would be present and also one telomere in the middle of the chromosome.
Well, sure enough there was a middle telomere in his slide of the particular human chromosome… but only ONE centromere was present and NOT two as expected.
And how does he explain this discrepancy?
Very simple actually, one of the two centromeres “must have” got deactivated and this means that only one centromere is now found in the chromosome… and thus evolution has indeed been “proven” to be true!
Is this not amazing story telling or what?? → Darwinian evolution must be true because of “scientific evidence” based entirely on “must have occured” reasoning such as this.
As for the case of the bacterial flagellum, how does he know that the type III secretory system “evolved” before the flagellum and not after as is more likely to be the case?
I think that this forum discussion does more justice to the subject than anything that I might be able to add.
The chromosome spoken of, however, is chromosome #2 and there are indeed one whole centromere and a partial one NOT in the median of the chromosome (as we see in other chromosomes). Then there are telomeres found in the meridian where on every other chromosome they are on the ends.
Occam’s Razor tells us that it is EXTREMELY LIKELY that #2 is a conjoining of two chromosomes.
There’s more evidence than just that. If we were to karyotype the #2 chromosome in humans and the #2p & #2q in apes we find the karyotype staining to be nearly identical to the respective chromosomes. (More evidence that the #2p and #2q were ancestrally stacked on one another like building blocks).
