A New Study Confirming Creationism

 

A new paper from the International Centre for Creation Studies provides proof that the earth is young, and gives undeniable evidence for the Fall.

We creationists maintain that the genomes of the first created kinds were perfect, but when sin entered the world, they became corrupted and imperfect. Genomes lost information because of the effect of sin.

To test this hypothesis, the Centre obtained soft tissue with DNA from Tyrannosaurus rex remains, and compared it with that of the modern Gallus gallus domesticus, which secular Darwinian evolutionists claim descended from T-rex.

The prediction from creation science is that the chicken has lost genetic information when compared with the DNA of the dinosaur.

We began by sequencing both genomes. How to compare the information content?

We borrowed a technique that is widely used in computer science - data compression. Basically, a file is just a string of data, just as DNA is. File "zip" compression reduces any file to the minimal possible size without losing information. Unzipping it will restore the original file without any loss of information whatsoever. 

It turns out that a maximally zipped file is indistinguishable from random data - unless you know the algorithm for unzipping it.

We did the equivalent of zipping the genomes of the two species. The results were astonishing. Zipping the genome of the T-rex resulted in no reduction in 'file' size. This means that the T-rex was already maximally compressed with no redundancy - exactly what you would expect from a perfect newly created kind. The 'file' for the chicken DNA, on the other hand, could be reduced to half its original size. This proved that half of its DNA was useless - corrupted by the effects of sin.
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The serious point here is that creationists don't do any research that could either verify or falsify their ideas. I have given them serious ideas for research before. They basically say that they don't do any research, even though "research" or "discovery" often appears in their "institutions'" names. So they don't really have any real confidence in what they believe. They just want your money.

Another interesting thing to note is that when I put this page on discussion groups, many people think it is a serious creationist article - which says an awful lot about people's perception of "serious" creationist articles. ;)