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Date:
3/11/2009 1:38:57 PM
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RE: For Bili
I just got a reprint request from a prof at Liberty.
When a docent at the museum at UMich we got an annual visit from a local xian high school. The first time they showed up, they blindsided the poor docents, making one cry. After that, her tour was conducted by students like myself.
And she was a nasty piece of work. She poked and prodded me, and got increasingly frustrated with my calm rebuffs of everything she said. She finally let loose with her best ammo--on a paleo tour--citing CytochromeB (part of the mitochondial respiratory cycle) as proof of creation, because there are very few differences in sequence between animals. She finished with a "ta da" smirk, and then I calmly explained that natural selection leads to some highly conserved sections of the genome, because changes lead to leathality, and they are rapidly removed from the gene pool. She turned beet red, and muttered that she needed to check on the other group, and wandered over the human evolution area where my antropology grad student fellow had the other half of the group.
One student tried to continue her line, but my glare shut him up, so he followed her. The other students apologized for the two of them and their behaviour, and we got on swimmingly for the rest of the tour.
