Human Devolution

[Ravenshire]

There is no controversy over GAs. If intelligent design was required then GAs wouldn't work. But they do.



Define what you mean by corrupting the genome.

If a mutation makes a mosquito more resistant to pesticides then how does this make the organism weaker? It actually improves the evolutionary fitness of an organism. This is why antibiotic resistance is on the rise for example.

---

Also complexity is not the defining feature of life. If it was then my computer would be alive. Or even a telephone book.

As Dr Carl Wielend writes; A mutational loss or defect can cause resistance. For instance, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the cause of TB, has an enzyme which (as well as its other useful functions) changes the antibiotic isoniazid into a form which destroys the bacterium. A mutation causes the loss of that enzyme and helps the pathogen withstand isoniazid.2 To give another example: the 4-quinolone antibiotics attack the enzyme DNA gyrase inside various bacteria. 3 An informationally insignificant mutation which results in the substitution of one amino acid by another destroys the enzyme/antibiotic interaction. More commonly, resistance arises through mutational defects that cause the inactivation of genes which control transport through the cell membrane. If the antibiotic is less efficiently taken up, it does not accumulate as readily to toxic levels.  

Genetic Antibiotic Resistance is devolution, not evolution.

I smell trip A's dirty sock. AAA is that you?!?