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Baby Dinosaurs on the Ark?: The Bible and Modern Science and the Trouble of Making It All Fit is unavailable, but you can change that!

A scientific look at creationism from a former creationist. According to a recent Gallup Poll, almost 40 percent of Americans believe that sometime in the last 10,000 years Earth and humankind were created in their present form—the rationale being that this is (presumably) the story told in the book of Genesis. Within that group, any threatening scientific evidence that suggests otherwise is...

example: the genes controlling limb development in snakes are turned off (no surprise there). Researchers replaced the limb-control genes in a mouse with snake limb-control genes. The resulting offspring? Mice with a head, a tail, and no legs.12 The evolution of dissimilar species from a common ancestor is hard for many to accept. The more we know about control genes, the more we understand how it happened.
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