Talk:Common descent/creationism

message: Added section for evidence against common descent for NPOV.
Added one example of evidence contrary to common descent.
Added contrary opinions for NPOV with links. DLH
:FeloniusMonk
Your deletion of my additions without discussion appears to violate deletion policy;
You appear to violate NPOV Wikipedia:Neutral point of view  by showing only "evidence for" and deleting "evidence against" even with references.
"The neutral point of view is a means of dealing with conflicting views. The policy requires that, where there are or have been conflicting views, these should be presented fairly, but not asserted. All significant points of view are presented, not just the most popular one. It should not be asserted that the most popular view or some sort of intermediate view among the different views is the correct one. Readers are left to form their own opinions."
"Detailed articles might also contain the mutual evaluations of each viewpoint, but studiously refrain from stating which is better. One can think of unbiased writing as the cold, fair, analytical description of all relevant sides of a debate. When bias towards one particular point of view can be detected the article needs to be fixed."
You appear to be asserting your POV, ignoring bias and deleting objective evidence you don't like. Please explain yourself. 
I will allow your deletion and place the edits here for discussion for now. However I consider your deletion close to vandalism (now that I have read that policy :)).
Please consider Wikipedia:Please do not bite the newcomers DLH 04:11, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Evidence Pro/Con Commmon Descent

message: Here is the addition for discussion:
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Conversely, Sir Fred Hoyle advocated panspermia (Mathematics of Evolution, 1999)- because the probability of evolution was so remote as to be impossible for life to have arisen on earth.  	 
- 	Proponents of both Creation Science and Intelligent Design see commonality in the genetic code as evidence for Common Design. They allow for some common descent by microevolution within major saltational changes in design or species. Similar features are attributed to variations of a common design."
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thread_title: NPOV with minority viewpoints

message: ===Contrary ALU insertion sequences===
Peter Borger summarizes contrary ALU insertion sequence evidence: 
“One Alu element, however, designated Alu CS12 was determined to be exclusive to gorilla and chimpanzee genomes and not present in humans. The authors commented that this was implying a relationship contrary to the orthodox phylogeny of ([human-chimp], [Gorilla]) (Hedges DJ et al. Genome Research 1999, 14:1068-75.). Not really something to worry about, however, as it would not really upset common descent. The behavior of another Alu element, designated Alu HS6, was more of a concern. The Alu HS6 was present in human, gorilla and orang-utan but not in chimpanzee. This highly peculiar observation – as it is obviously defying common descent – prompted the investigators to consider the possibility of the specific excision of this Alu element from the chimpanzee’s genome. Hedges et al argue that:
	"The HS6 insertions in human, gorilla, and orang-utan contained direct repeats that were identical in both sequence and length, strongly indicating identical by descent insertions. Unexpectedly, the chimpanzee locus was a perfect preintegration site, consisting of only one copy of the direct repeat."
	As the precise excision of an Alu insertion appeared to be a remote possibility, the investigators explored other potential explanations for their observations, which they did not find. Figure 1 of the Hedges paper shows the DNA sequences surrounding the integration site of Alu HS6 in humans, the great apes and Owl-monkey (Aotus trivirgatus). The absence of the Alu HS6 in chimpanzees is sufficient to scientifically falsify the idea of common ancestry.""
(Extract from Peter Borger “General Universal Theory of Biology (GUToB) (forthcoming) page 109.)  
Hodges’ et al. (1999) evidence contradicts orthodox [http://tolweb.org/tree?group=Hominidae Phylogony of humandea and common descent, where humans and chimpanzees have a common ancestor with gorillas, and all have a common ancestor with orangutangs.
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As these are direct quotes from Borger's book, please do not edit, but add comments/additions. DLH 20:07, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Reading the paper (2004, not 1999, you seem to have made a mistake on your ref) it seems like the authors see it as unusual, but not earth-shatteringly so, and they propose a viable alternative explanation.  How is it that one single anomaly is enough to "scientifically falsify the idea of common ancestry"?  The improbability of one anomaly certainly isn't enough to balance out the improbability of all the non-anomalous explanations.  Seems to be a rather silly conclusion to draw.  Guettarda 22:09, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It's probably more likely that this could have been polymorphic in the common ape ancestor, and by the time of human-chimp radiation it hadn't fixed yet. For at least human/chimp and gorilla, the speciation time was not very far apart at all, and there was probably a huge amount of shared polymorphism between the human/chimp ancestor and the gorilla ancestor. Not sure how long ago orang diverged and I'm too lazy to look it up, but I imagine it's probably within the lifetime of a typical shared polymorphism (which is something like a million years on average). Graft 23:32, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Err, so it seems I'm not that lazy, and that orang diverged much longer ago (9-15MYA, which is about 7 MYA before human-chimp divergence), and also that I don't bother reading, since the authors discuss this. I still think a long-lived insertion polymorphism is more likely than their paralogous duplication scenario, though obviously not very likely. Graft 23:56, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

text: Also this suggests precise deletions aren't that rare anyway. Graft 00:06, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Interesting.  Maybe Borger will have to re-write his book.  Guettarda 04:50, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Evidence Against Common Descent

message: Peter Borger summarizes contrary ALU insertion sequence evidence: 
“One Alu element, however, designated Alu CS12 was determined to be exclusive to gorilla and chimpanzee genomes and not present in humans. The authors commented that this was implying a relationship contrary to the orthodox phylogeny of ([human-chimp], [Gorilla]) (Hedges DJ et al. Genome Research 1999, 14:1068-75.). Not really something to worry about, however, as it would not really upset common descent. The behavior of another Alu element, designated Alu HS6, was more of a concern. The Alu HS6 was present in human, gorilla and orang-utan but not in chimpanzee. This highly peculiar observation – as it is obviously defying common descent – prompted the investigators to consider the possibility of the specific excision of this Alu element from the chimpanzee’s genome. Hedges et al argue that:
	"The HS6 insertions in human, gorilla, and orang-utan contained direct repeats that were identical in both sequence and length, strongly indicating identical by descent insertions. Unexpectedly, the chimpanzee locus was a perfect preintegration site, consisting of only one copy of the direct repeat."
	As the precise excision of an Alu insertion appeared to be a remote possibility, the investigators explored other potential explanations for their observations, which they did not find. Figure 1 of the Hedges paper shows the DNA sequences surrounding the integration site of Alu HS6 in humans, the great apes and Owl-monkey (Aotus trivirgatus). The absence of the Alu HS6 in chimpanzees is sufficient to scientifically falsify the idea of common ancestry.""
(Extract from Peter Borger “General Universal Theory of Biology (GUToB) (forthcoming) page 109.)  
Hodges’ et al. (1999) evidence contradicts orthodox [http://tolweb.org/tree?group=Hominidae Phylogony of humandea and common descent, where humans and chimpanzees have a common ancestor with gorillas, and all have a common ancestor with orangutangs.
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As these are direct quotes from Borger's book, please do not edit, but add comments/additions. DLH 20:07, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Reading the paper (2004, not 1999, you seem to have made a mistake on your ref) it seems like the authors see it as unusual, but not earth-shatteringly so, and they propose a viable alternative explanation.  How is it that one single anomaly is enough to "scientifically falsify the idea of common ancestry"?  The improbability of one anomaly certainly isn't enough to balance out the improbability of all the non-anomalous explanations.  Seems to be a rather silly conclusion to draw.  Guettarda 22:09, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It's probably more likely that this could have been polymorphic in the common ape ancestor, and by the time of human-chimp radiation it hadn't fixed yet. For at least human/chimp and gorilla, the speciation time was not very far apart at all, and there was probably a huge amount of shared polymorphism between the human/chimp ancestor and the gorilla ancestor. Not sure how long ago orang diverged and I'm too lazy to look it up, but I imagine it's probably within the lifetime of a typical shared polymorphism (which is something like a million years on average). Graft 23:32, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Err, so it seems I'm not that lazy, and that orang diverged much longer ago (9-15MYA, which is about 7 MYA before human-chimp divergence), and also that I don't bother reading, since the authors discuss this. I still think a long-lived insertion polymorphism is more likely than their paralogous duplication scenario, though obviously not very likely. Graft 23:56, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

text: Also this suggests precise deletions aren't that rare anyway. Graft 00:06, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Interesting.  Maybe Borger will have to re-write his book.  Guettarda 04:50, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Contrary ALU insertion sequences

message: See homology (biology), orthology, paralogy."
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thread_title: Terminology