Evidence for Evolution: Pseudogenes (and the platypus)

This is actually an "enhanced" repost of an earlier video.

It describes how pseudogenes support evolution and presents a recent example of pseudogenes from the platypus genome. The following two clips are shown:

1.Francis Collins and The Language of God: The Veritas Forum at Berkeley

http://webcast.berkeley.edu/event_details.php?webcastid=22970

2.Loss of Egg Yolk Genes in Mammals and the Origin of Lactation and Placentation:

http://biology.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&doi=10.137...

An another AWESOME video discussing pseudogenes and Vitamin C:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7e0Ic03c6f8&feature=channel

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• science
• evolution
• genome
• francis
• collins
• creationist
• creationism
• darwin
• genetic

[AllstarCanadian]

Ah ha ha ha, you left out most of that speech with Francis Collins... probably stopped it when he got to the part about creation. Because I just watched an 3 interviews on him, and read his book (The language of God), and he is not only a creationist, he is also a christian. He thinks that Christianity changed as people spread out through thousands of years, and that every religion is right, and there is a God.

[ndjarnag]

@AllstarCanadian Francis Collins, head of the NIH, is a brilliant scientist and Christian as well. However, he is not a creationist. A link for the entire speech is found in the description box.

[wimscheers]

Vicious animals, just shredded the creationits to pieces.

[Cephalochordata]

So we are all designed by someone with the skills of a Windows XP programmer?

The disturbing part is how much that would actually explain.

[darkfur35]

evolution is a false theory..

[stuchly1]

"mammals don't lay egggs" echidna and platypus still do... =D

[EdaP79]

this is still retarded, no person has ever seen two like animals make a different animal. two goats still make a goat. forever this will happen they wont become humans. and if we evolved from apes then why the hell are those damn things still around and not humans duh!!! similar genes mean a common creator. Fucking morons.

[jbkgjbkg]

@jbkgjbkg Because they where isolated from the rest of the world on Austraila and New Guinea. They found a niche where no or few other lifeforms competed with them and that's why their offspring are still alive today.

[skoockum]

@jbkgjbkg When mammals first evolved they all laid eggs. It just happens that two egg laying mammals live in niches that haven't been more efficiently exploited by placental or marsupial mammals.

The lesson that evolution teaches is that newer doesn't mean better. Sometimes the new form is better at survival, sometimes it's not.

[jbkgjbkg]

@Answerquestions1 Why the fuck does two species of mammal lay eggs then?

[elsbymike]

Creationists think the world is only 6000 years old and man ran around with dinosaurs!!! Ignorance abounds!!!

[Answerquestions1]

mammals do not share ´´pseudogenes´´ with other classes of animals, so in any case, pseudogenes disprove the idea that mammals share a common ancestor with reptiles, birds, fish etc.

[AllstarCanadian]

@ndjarnag Christians are creationists. They believe that God is the creator. The world is an intelligent design not a series of random accidents.