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This article was just published on Answers in Genesis, entitled Apes and Humans—Our Saliva Is Different.
This is the excerpt from that article about a scientific paper recently published regarding a study of primate salivia:
Reading the above, I was immediately led to belief that human saliva is somehow wholly unique to humans. After all, they claim that "each primate species they looked at had its own unique collection of salivary proteins" and that there was "no obvious connection!"
Wow! This must be such an amazing paper and contradiction to biological evolution if humans have such unique saliva with absolutely no connection to other primates! Surely this must be a major challenge to modern evolution, right? Right???
So I looked up the original paper and immediately saw this:
Human and Nonhuman Primate Lineage-Specific Footprints in the Salivary Proteome
Oh. Well, that was a giant let-down.
So much for Answer in Genesis's patently misleading claims. Maybe next time.
This is the excerpt from that article about a scientific paper recently published regarding a study of primate salivia:
As the Institute for Creation Research shares, the researchers discovered that our saliva was very different from that of our supposed “cousins,” gorillas and chimpanzees, as well as the evolutionary outlier, macaque monkeys. Our human saliva is much waterier than ape saliva. Also, the concentration of proteins and the major groups of those proteins found in saliva is much lower in human saliva than in the saliva of apes and monkeys. They also discovered that humans have proteins unique to us. Not only that, each primate species they looked at had its own unique collection of salivary proteins. There was no obvious connection!
Reading the above, I was immediately led to belief that human saliva is somehow wholly unique to humans. After all, they claim that "each primate species they looked at had its own unique collection of salivary proteins" and that there was "no obvious connection!"
Wow! This must be such an amazing paper and contradiction to biological evolution if humans have such unique saliva with absolutely no connection to other primates! Surely this must be a major challenge to modern evolution, right? Right???
So I looked up the original paper and immediately saw this:
All Major Abundant Salivary Proteins Detected in Humans are also Detectable in Chimpanzee and Gorilla Saliva
Human and Nonhuman Primate Lineage-Specific Footprints in the Salivary Proteome
Oh. Well, that was a giant let-down.
So much for Answer in Genesis's patently misleading claims. Maybe next time.