Bio-Origins Project Update, Hypothesizing Differential Mutation
Rates  You might expect that the same gene in different
creatures would have the same sequence. Surprisingly, this is
not so. As we reported last month,1 our preliminary protein/DNA
comparison data show profound molecular differences across
creatures, and these differences fall along traditional Linnaean
classification groupings as shown in Figure 1.  What would you
conclude from this result? How did these differences arise? Was
this same gene created differently in different creatures? Did
these differences arise primarily because of post-creation and
post-Flood change? How do we explain these results from a young
earth perspective?  One fascinating hypothesis is that these
differences arose as a result of different rates of mutation
accumulation in different “kinds.” This hypothesis—that the
differences stem from different rates of origin—is different
from the evolutionary explanation that the differences reflect
different times of origin.  Con