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$\"\"$ Readers of the Evangelical Textual Criticism blog will have seen the post about how shared transcriptional errors are evidence of two texts having a common ancestor<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Given that there is still resistance to the acceptance of mainstream science among some Evangelicals, I thought it appropriate to mention that the exact same reasoning is used in biology to make the case for evolution. Where there is a matching transcription error in organisms\u2019 DNA \u2013 such as that which results in human beings and some other primates not producing Vitamin C<\/a> and thus being prone to scurvy \u2013 this is evidence of the error being due to shared dependence on a common \u201csource\u201d of this shared genetic material.<\/p>\n

I hope that more Evangelicals will understand textual criticism and how it relates to Biblical studies. I hope that more Evangelicals will also understand the similar reasoning in the natural sciences and how it relates to our scientific understanding of life on this planet.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"