What is the Genetic Evidence for Evolution?

In our latest, we move on to look at the genetic evidence for evolution. The discovery of DNA has revolutionized our understanding of common descent, particularly in the past few decades. Mutated genes spread through populations over generations, leading to the change we know as evolution. Amazingly, deeper study of DNA lines up with Darwin's initial observations of the larger natural world. While it would take weeks to highlight all the genetic evidence for evolution, today we focus on a few specific examples: the similarity of genomes for related species, psuedogenes, and genetic markers left by retroviruses.

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Education

Tags:

• evolution
• genetics
• Darwin
• genes
• psuedogenes
• evidence for evolution
• retroviruses
• science
• DNA
• common descent
• ancestry

[pacouli]

Transposons + Pseudogenes + Endogenous retroviruses

This is what made me accept evolution. I really hope my fellow christian friends would understand this...

[AgApE010]

Hopefully some of my Christian friends will more readily accept the evidence when it comes from other Christians.

Great job on the video! God bless.

[MPWorthMcEwan]

@pacouli It's so cool to talk to someone who agrees :)

[pacouli]

@MPWorthMcEwan

Precisely.

And I tend to think that if anti-evolutionists would hold to a stronger view of divine providence and sovereignty, they would not see these natural processes as such a threat.

Concursus divinus / Divine accompanying should be a given.

[MPWorthMcEwan]

@pacouli Same thing for me. I was against evolution until I encountered the genetic evidence. By the time I finished Denis Venema's article, I was a theistic evolutionist. As a result, I've had to adjust my theology--I've found the Reformed doctrine of "concursus" to be very helpful in this regard, as interpreted by Karl Barth ("Divine Accompanying" in Church Dogmatics).

If God can accomplish His will through the free choices of humanity, then why not through natural processes?

[lxAgnosticxl]

Creationism =/= Christianity

[fruitofspirit]

Interesting, great job.

[markderosa]

If your a creationist, please watch this video coming from Christians.