Dr. Edward Max on Plagiarism & Shared Genetic Mistakes
Posted in Creation/Evolution on May 28th, 2007 by dhawkinsmoI have found much misleading information at Talk Origins and I have been examining those articles in detail for over a year now. One of the most subtle is Edward Max’s comparison of the GLO gene in humans and apes.
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/molgen/
He notes the fact that apes and humans cannot produce Vitamin C, (picture at left from Wikipedia) and assumes that this is because of a broken GULO gene. He compares this situation to a plagiarism case in the 1940’s, and leads readers to believe that this is strong evidence of common descent.
But this is misleading. Let’s take a look. Read more »