(October 26, 2011 at 6:57 pm)Shell B Wrote: No, it isn't. Hence the fact that many people retain some level of lactose intolerance. Furthermore, you have to show that there is an actual loss of genetic information, I mean, it is gone and nothing more is in its place, before we can continue this discussion. Assertions mean nothing.
There is a genetic mechanism that shuts off lactase production after weaning. That is the mechanism that is rendered useless by the mutation. This qualifies as a loss in semantic genetic information because the information that is left behind is no longer functional, it’s completely useless. So you have a loss in genetic information that happens to provide a benefit to the organism. If you are going to make assertions that people are kissing cousins of single celled organisms you are going to have to point to millions of information increasing mutations which we just do not observe happening. If humans had developed some genetic mechanism that allowed them to digest milk later in life you may be on to something. Rather you have a mutation that prohibits the functionality of a genetic mechanism that is supposed to be functional. It’s evidence supporting natural selection, but It’s not evidence supporting common descent.
