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Thoughts
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RE: Thoughts
(September 28, 2017 at 8:34 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote:
(September 28, 2017 at 3:54 pm)Godscreated Wrote:  She can't defend against what is known, understand this DNA can't have new information add to it and thus eliminates the possibility for on kind to become another, period. This is something you can not get around.

You're a fucking moron.  Creationist bullshit about being unable to add information is just that: bullshit.

Quote:Claim CB102:
Mutations are random noise; they do not add information. Evolution cannot cause an increase in information.

Source:
AIG, n.d. Creation Education Center. http://www.answersingenesis.org/cec/docs/CvE_report.asp

Response:

 
  •  It is hard to understand how anyone could make this claim, since anything mutations can do, mutations can undo. Some mutations add information to a genome; some subtract it. Creationists get by with this claim only by leaving the term "information" undefined, impossibly vague, or constantly shifting. By any reasonable definition, increases in information have been observed to evolve. We have observed the evolution of

           increased genetic variety in a population (Lenski 1995; Lenski et al. 1991)
           increased genetic material (Alves et al. 2001; Brown et al. 1998; Hughes and Friedman 2003; Lynch and Conery 2000; Ohta 2003)
           novel genetic material (Knox et al. 1996; Park et al. 1996)
           novel genetically-regulated abilities (Prijambada et al. 1995)

       If these do not qualify as information, then nothing about information is relevant to evolution in the first place.
  • A mechanism that is likely to be particularly common for adding information is gene duplication, in which a long stretch of DNA is copied, followed by point mutations that change one or both of the copies. Genetic sequencing has revealed several instances in which this is likely the origin of some proteins. For example:
           
    • Two enzymes in the histidine biosynthesis pathway that are barrel-shaped, structural and sequence evidence suggests, were formed via gene duplication and fusion of two half-barrel ancestors (Lang et al. 2000).
             
    • RNASE1, a gene for a pancreatic enzyme, was duplicated, and in langur monkeys one of the copies mutated into RNASE1B, which works better in the more acidic small intestine of the langur. (Zhang et al. 2002)
             
    • Yeast was put in a medium with very little sugar. After 450 generations, hexose transport genes had duplicated several times, and some of the duplicated versions had mutated further. (Brown et al. 1998)
  •    The biological literature is full of additional examples. A PubMed search (at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi) on "gene duplication" gives more than 3000 references.
  • According to Shannon-Weaver information theory, random noise maximizes information. This is not just playing word games. The random variation that mutations add to populations is the variation on which selection acts. Mutation alone will not cause adaptive evolution, but by eliminating nonadaptive variation, natural selection communicates information about the environment to the organism so that the organism becomes better adapted to it. Natural selection is the process by which information about the environment is transferred to an organism's genome and thus to the organism (Adami et al. 2000).
  • The process of mutation and selection is observed to increase information and complexity in simulations (Adami et al. 2000; Schneider 2000).


http://www.talkorigins.org/indexcc/CB/CB102.html

 The only thing you have shown was adaptation which creationist understand happens, and nothing you presented proved that DNA has had information added to it.

GC

(September 29, 2017 at 3:00 pm)Whateverist Wrote:
(September 26, 2017 at 3:18 pm)Godscreated Wrote: None of that is proof of evolution, you do not even understand the science you think is real.


If the truth of evolution is a threat to your faith you won't have it for long.  Weird that you're so sure evolution cannot be among the strange and wonderful ways your puny god might choose.

 Evolution is for the puny and that God isn't. he called all materials into existence where before there was nothing and I say that's anything but puny. By the way there is no truth in evolution in and of itself, it actually doesn't exist. How about that atheist believe in something that doesn't exist, and you all are suppose to be so logical.

GC

(September 29, 2017 at 11:57 pm)Astreja Wrote:
(September 29, 2017 at 11:52 pm)Godscreated Wrote: No new information can be added to DNA and without new information no changes from one kind to another can happen.

That is patently untrue.  Every single time sexual reproduction occurs, new information is created as the DNA from the male and female partners combines to form novel combinations.

Just a combination of existing information nothing new was added, the child is still a human being. I would think that those who believe that statement you made above would be appalled at abortion, just how could evolutionist kill off new information and justify it.

GC
God loves those who believe and those who do not and the same goes for me, you have no choice in this matter. That puts the matter of total free will to rest.
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RE: Thoughts - by Mister Agenda - October 15, 2017 at 5:43 pm
RE: Thoughts - by JackRussell - September 26, 2017 at 6:18 pm
RE: Thoughts - by Godscreated - September 28, 2017 at 3:54 pm
RE: Thoughts - by Jehanne - September 28, 2017 at 5:50 pm
RE: Thoughts - by Godscreated - September 29, 2017 at 11:52 pm
RE: Thoughts - by Astreja - September 29, 2017 at 11:57 pm
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RE: Thoughts - by Whateverist - October 3, 2017 at 1:30 pm
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RE: Thoughts - by Jehanne - September 26, 2017 at 8:01 pm
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RE: Thoughts - by Whateverist - September 29, 2017 at 3:00 pm
RE: Thoughts - by The Grand Nudger - September 25, 2017 at 5:49 pm
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RE: Thoughts - by Jehanne - September 29, 2017 at 12:08 pm
RE: Thoughts - by Angrboda - September 29, 2017 at 2:34 pm
RE: Thoughts - by Minimalist - September 30, 2017 at 1:16 am
RE: Thoughts - by JackRussell - September 30, 2017 at 2:06 pm
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RE: Thoughts - by The Grand Nudger - October 3, 2017 at 1:24 pm
RE: Thoughts - by Crossless2.0 - October 3, 2017 at 4:48 pm
RE: Thoughts - by Neo-Scholastic - October 3, 2017 at 4:54 pm
RE: Thoughts - by Crossless2.0 - October 4, 2017 at 10:15 am
RE: Thoughts - by Jehanne - October 13, 2017 at 9:08 am
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RE: Thoughts - by KevinM1 - October 13, 2017 at 11:44 pm
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RE: Thoughts - by JackRussell - October 14, 2017 at 9:27 am
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RE: Thoughts - by downbeatplumb - October 14, 2017 at 9:38 am
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