The Villian Has Been Found...hmmm Really?

"Adopted protein might be MS culprit" (_Science News_ v. 166, Oct. 9, 2004, p. 237) is about research indicating the overproduction of the protein syncytin is responsible for multiple sclerosis. What intrigues me is the bit about the gene responsible for it being "adopted": "The gene for syncytin is an oddity. Scientists hypothesize that it was captured from retroviruses that invaded the human genome roughly 1 million years ago (SN: 5/13/00, p. 318). The gene is normally quiescent, except when playing a role in placental development..." Smells like the evolutionists are stretching to explain (cover up) something that doesn't fit their theory here.

Until Next Time,

David Bump
Philippians 3: 13 Brethren, I
count not myself to have
apprehended: but [this] one thing
[I do], forgetting those things
which are behind, and reaching
forth unto those things which are
before, 14 I press toward the
mark for the prize of the high
calling of God in Christ Jesus.

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