Showing posts with label Mutation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mutation. Show all posts

Mutations: Do they increase information? Part 12

>> Monday, September 21, 2009


The Naturalistic Evolutionary Model:


An Intelligent Design-Young Earth/Cataclysm Model:

Prediction:
A mechanism for positive mutations that increases information to the genetic code must be discovered.


Prediction:
Mutations will not be capable of enriching the gene pool, but will lead to degeneration and information loss.


No mechanism that increases information to the genetic code has as yet been described or experimentally demonstrated.

Three thousand generations of radiated fruit flies gave many mutations leading to death or detriment to the species. None were positive. If there are zero positive mutations in 3000 generations, how many will there be in 100,000 generations? How about in 1,000,000?

The only supposedly positive mutations have been those, which cause loss of information to the genetic structure of a living being. There is the reported example of a species of beetle that lost the ability to fly due to mutation. The resulting sub-species was able to survive better then its peers due to changes in the environment.

The pictorial example given in the November 2004 edition of National Geographic in its defense of evolution showed an albino salamander as evidence for a mutated species. Is the loss of pigment capacity an indicator of a possible improvement in the gene structure? Does albinism improve viability of a species?



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The Limits of Natural Selection: How much can a species change? Part 11

>> Tuesday, September 15, 2009


The Naturalistic Evolutionary Model:


An Intelligent Design-Young Earth/Cataclysm Model:

“Speciation is unobservable,” said one evolutionary biology teacher restating the current evolutionary thinking on the subject. Evolutionary theory states that mutational changes are too slow to demonstrate the required amount of change for new species to develop in experimental time frames.

Natural selection is universally recognized. No known natural selection processes, however, have been demonstrated to cross major barriers. So called “micro-evolution” is most likely natural selection at work within the boundaries of inherent variability (as described by neo-Mendelian genetics and the DNA code). Naturally selected variability can lead to species differentiation such that there are many kinds of finches, many kinds of dogs, many kinds of cats, varied forms of the HIV/AIDS virus, etc. These variations (incorrectly called mutations) are inherent to the gene code, but these are not capable of producing new organs or macro-systems such as: flight; eyes; speech or radar capability.

The fact that organisms have an inherent ability to adapt through natural selection is an argument in favor of design. Adaptability requires a higher level of design than non-adaptability. For example, a software program designed to function exclusively on one platform, say Windows OS, requires less information than one, which is designed to function on Windows, UNIX, LINUX and Mac environments.

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