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A skeptical social media post is making the claim that the lesser mole-rat (one of several blind mole rats) is evidence against intelligent design.
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[__ Science __ ] Blind Mole-Rats: Evidence for Intelligent Design
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Barbarian
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Actually, mole rats are not blind. They can use their eyes to identify predators. They can also distinguish colors.
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Proc Biol Sci. 2004 May 7; 271
Mammalian microevolution in action: adaptive edaphic genomic divergence in blind subterranean mole-rats.
Andrei Polyakov, Alex Beharav, Aaron Avivi, and Eviatar Nevo
Abstract
Genomic diversity of anonymous regions across the genome, most probably including coding and noncoding amplified fragment length polymorphisms (AFLPs), was examined in 20 individuals of the blind mole-rat, Spalax galili, one of four allospecies of the Spalax ehrenbergi superspecies of blind subterranean mole-rats in Israel. We compared 10 individuals from two nearby populations in Upper Galilee, separated by only a few dozen to hundreds of metres and living in two sharply contrasting ecologies: white chalk and rendzina soil with Sarcopterium spinosum and Majorana syriaca versus black volcanic basalt soil with Carlina hispanica-Psorelea bitominosa and Alhagi graecorum plant formations. The microsite tested ranged in an area of less than 10000 m2. Out of 729 AFLP loci, 433 (59.4%) were polymorphic, with 211 soil unique alleles. Genetic polymorphism was significantly higher on the ecologically more xeric and stressful chalky rendzina soil than on the neighbouring mesic basalt soil. This is a remarkable pattern for a mammal that can disperse each generation between tens to hundreds of metres. These results cannot be explained by migration (which causes homogenization) or by chance (which will exclude sharp genomic soil divergence). Natural selection is the only evolutionary adaptive force that can cause genetic divergence across the genome matching the sharp microscale ecological contrast.
'Blind' Mole Rats Can See, Study Confirms
Once thought to be blind, two species of mole rats respond to both white and colored light
Proc Biol Sci. 2004 May 7; 271
Mammalian microevolution in action: adaptive edaphic genomic divergence in blind subterranean mole-rats.
Andrei Polyakov, Alex Beharav, Aaron Avivi, and Eviatar Nevo
Abstract
Genomic diversity of anonymous regions across the genome, most probably including coding and noncoding amplified fragment length polymorphisms (AFLPs), was examined in 20 individuals of the blind mole-rat, Spalax galili, one of four allospecies of the Spalax ehrenbergi superspecies of blind subterranean mole-rats in Israel. We compared 10 individuals from two nearby populations in Upper Galilee, separated by only a few dozen to hundreds of metres and living in two sharply contrasting ecologies: white chalk and rendzina soil with Sarcopterium spinosum and Majorana syriaca versus black volcanic basalt soil with Carlina hispanica-Psorelea bitominosa and Alhagi graecorum plant formations. The microsite tested ranged in an area of less than 10000 m2. Out of 729 AFLP loci, 433 (59.4%) were polymorphic, with 211 soil unique alleles. Genetic polymorphism was significantly higher on the ecologically more xeric and stressful chalky rendzina soil than on the neighbouring mesic basalt soil. This is a remarkable pattern for a mammal that can disperse each generation between tens to hundreds of metres. These results cannot be explained by migration (which causes homogenization) or by chance (which will exclude sharp genomic soil divergence). Natural selection is the only evolutionary adaptive force that can cause genetic divergence across the genome matching the sharp microscale ecological contrast.
Truthfrees
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wow - what an interesting article - blind mole rats aren't actually blind - they are protected as they excavate - and they adjust to light faster than other animals due to the way they were created - who would have known? - this does attest to intelligent design - God is amazing - we aren't the only ones that are wonderfully and fearfully made - so are all of God's amazing creatures
Prycejosh1987
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God is amazing. Its impossible to say we were not created, everything is too detailed and acute in design, and movements, etc.