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Do fingerprints serve an adaptive function? If so is this evidence of common design or common ancestry? An Answer in Genesis author says that fingerprints are evidence of common design because fingerprints of humans are distinctive from other great apes. That is a confusing argument since great ape species which AIG says are the same "kind" have fingerprints that are also distinctive from each other but apparently resulted changes in descendants of a common ancestor ark kind.
However, a more interesting feature of his article is the use of a quote to support the authors contention that fingerprints appear to be "well-designed" but in this video we go and look at that original article and look at the context of that quote and discover a very different story.
Answer in Genesis article: answersingenesis.org/human-evolution/close-not-close-enough
Original source of the quote: journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/212/13/2016/18342/Fingerprints-are-unlikely-to-increase-the-friction
An article that AIG would be better of using to support functional role of fingerprint ridges: pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2001055117
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Joel Duff (aka Dr. Duff or The Natural Historian) resources:
About: joelduff.org
Blog: thenaturalhistorian.com
Twitter: twitter.com/NaturalHistoria
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thenaturalhi...
Photography "Portraits of Creation:" beechnutphotography.com
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Do fingerprints serve an adaptive function? If so is this evidence of common design or common ancestry? An Answer in Genesis author says that fingerprints are evidence of common design because fingerprints of humans are distinctive from other great apes. That is a confusing argument since great ape species which AIG says are the same "kind" have fingerprints that are also distinctive from each other but apparently resulted changes in descendants of a common ancestor ark kind.
However, a more interesting feature of his article is the use of a quote to support the authors contention that fingerprints appear to be "well-designed" but in this video we go and look at that original article and look at the context of that quote and discover a very different story.
Answer in Genesis article: answersingenesis.org/human-evolution/close-not-close-enough
Original source of the quote: journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/212/13/2016/18342/Fingerprints-are-unlikely-to-increase-the-friction
An article that AIG would be better of using to support functional role of fingerprint ridges: pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2001055117
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Joel Duff (aka Dr. Duff or The Natural Historian) resources:
About: joelduff.org
Blog: thenaturalhistorian.com
Twitter: twitter.com/NaturalHistoria
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thenaturalhi...
Photography "Portraits of Creation:" beechnutphotography.com
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