Tails of Mice and Men
There are a few things that I keep repeating because they are so important, the primary of which is that scientists (and everyone else) operate from their worldviews. These are comprised of presuppositions (things believed without experimental support). Most evolutionists presuppose materialism, creationists presuppose the truth of the Bible.
Believers in descent with modifications look at information through their Darwin spectacles, usually rejecting contrary evidence and predictions. Some researchers had numerous assumptions about humans having lost tails through evolution, so they studied the tails of mice.
Darwin Spectacles and mouse tail, spectacles image by kkiser at Freeimages |
In the ongoing search for evidence of evolution, researchers seek to determine how and when humans lost their tails. After all, Old World monkeys and New World monkeys have tails, while apes and humans—known collectively in secular terms as hominoids—do not. According to the premise of evolution, there should be an ancestor somewhere back there that lost its tail on the way to becoming bipedal. Perhaps a mutation? Perhaps some unique genetic element that would differentiate between tailed monkeys and tailless hominoids? And, indeed, a group of researchers at NYU Langone Health recently published a paper, albeit a preprint that has not yet undergone peer review, titled “The genetic basis of tail-loss evolution in humans and apes.”
Before you continue to read the article, note that the first part is semi-technical and us reg'lar folk can still get something out of it. The rest is technical and would appeal to people with knowledge of biology and genetics. Ready? Great. Head on over to "Does New Mouse Experiment Explain How Humans Lost Their Tails?" for the rest.