December 8, 2005

WE'RE ALL CREATIONISTS NOW:

Team of scientists maps out 99% of dog genome (Gareth Cook, December 8, 2005, Boston Globe)

''It is a historic day in the relationship between man and dog," said Eric S. Lander at a press conference yesterday, as a pug and an Akita tussled in the back of the room at the Bayside Exposition Center, where a dog show was being set up. Lander is the director of the Broad Institute and the owner of two golden retrievers.

Scientists said that the dog also stands as a testament to the power of evolution -- and its importance -- at a time when some are challenging its teaching in public schools. [...]

Dogs themselves are a human creation, thought to have begun when people domesticated the wolf in East Asia.


Posted by Orrin Judd at December 8, 2005 7:23 AM
Comments

Not human creation, co-creation. That's what "Fill the earth and subdue it...have dominion over every living thing," means. JPII was all over this matter.

Posted by: Lou Gots at December 8, 2005 7:45 AM

JPII didn't allow for cats then. They have dominion over us.

Posted by: Brit at December 8, 2005 7:55 AM

Random mutt-ations.

Posted by: Qiao Yang at December 8, 2005 8:33 AM

On the positive side, Lander does own two golden retreivers. If he owned two fru-fru dogs, I'd have far more questions about this genome mapping project (and for what it's worth, he gave the best valedictorian speech I've ever heard to the graduating class at Stuyvesant High School in 1974 -- funny and self-assured, without the pompousity and overbearingness most other valeditory speakers I've heard feel they have to impart on their classmates. It's probably part of the reason why he's become the public face of the genome mapping program over the past decade).

Posted by: John at December 8, 2005 10:20 AM

Scientists said that the dog also stands as a testament to the power of evolution -- Dogs themselves are a human creation ...

Huh?

Posted by: Robert Schwartz at December 8, 2005 1:38 PM

Robert,

just bad journalism.

Posted by: creeper at December 8, 2005 2:39 PM

Have they found the cat poop is a tasty treat gene yet, or is that in the unmapped 1%.

Posted by: joe shropshire at December 8, 2005 4:04 PM
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