Reason : Genetics

Gene map proves platypus is part bird, mammal and reptile | by USA Today

8th May 2008 :

Fruit fly parasite's gene invasion raises questions over evolution | by Alok Jha

31th Aug 2007 : Scientists have found the genes of an organism fused wholesale into the genome of an entirely separate species, raising new questions over how evolution works.

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"The fight both for and against slavery in the United States was waged first along scriptural lines. . . . There was also the theory of the descent from Ham which attained great vogue and still does in certain quarters. . . . With the superseding of religion by science the battle of inequality shifted from a scriptural wording to a scientific one. Now it was no longer what "God had said" but what color, hair, and skull showed. . . . In other words, the pro-slavery faction and the antislavery one had entered the stage in new costumes. Underneath were the same bodies."

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