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Originally Posted by photon
Or how people (and other mammals) require vitamin C to survive, but can't produce it ourselves. Oh we have the necessary structures to make it, but the gene to turn that stuff on is damaged.
And the funny thing is all the other mammals that can't make their own vitamin C have that same gene, and it's damaged in the exact same way.
But other mammals have the same gene, but it is undamaged and they don't need an external source of vitamin C.
Evolution provides a perfectly reasonable explanation for this. If Intelligent Design was a real scientific theory, it would give reasons for this kind of thing, and make predictions about other things that could be verified. However it isn't a real science since all it does is try to find gaps and holes in existing theories.
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First of all let me just say I believe in evolution, but this fact about the vitamin C gene strikes me a little odd. Wouldn't the undamaged gene be more suited for survival of a species? How would the damaged gene have become prevalent? Wouldn't that be reversed evolution? Just asking.