UC Santa Cruz, Salk academics have money to burn on search for evidence of evolution - Genome 10K

November 4, 6:14 PMChristian Worldview ExaminerBill Belew

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The Genome 10K. It sounds like a race of about 6.2 miles. It's not.

Academics from UC Santa Cruz and the Salk Institute have money and time to burn.

A "genome zoo" project has been outlined to complete genetic codes of 10,000 vertebrate species. So far so good.

Project leaders say, "The most challenging intellectual problem in biology for this century will be the reconstruction of our biological past so we can understand how complex organisms such as ourselves evolved. Genomes contain information from the past - they are molecular fossils - and having sequences from vertebrates will be an essential source of rich information."

Indeed the project sounds like it can/will keep the biologists busy for a long time. But for the purposes of understanding how we evolved?

Why start off with that supposition and go look for an answer? Rather, not why not get the info and ask, "What is this teaching us?"

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