(October 26, 2016 at 4:59 pm)Soldat Du Christ Wrote: You guys are just tooting your own horn. Gene duplication isn't new information being added, it's duplication.
"Mutations leading to new information (e.g., way of functioning, physical trait). Sometimes, it can have negative effects, sometimes positive, and sometimes a combination of both, depending on the environment type in which the mutation (or set of mutations) develop(s)."
Sources please
How does some species of bacteria acquire the ability to eat a man-made material without having some mutation that adds some sort of new information?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nylon-eating_bacteria