Functional Pseuodogenes and Common Descent

V.J. Torley and our colleague Cornelius Hunter have continued their discussion about common descent, a subject on which, as John West notes, advocates of intelligent design don't all agree. Airing such disagreements, if done in a respectful and substantive manner, is of course a healthy thing. Writing at Uncommon Descent, Dr. Torley raises an interesting point, directed at Dr. Hunter and citing theistic evolutionist Dennis Venema:

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