Argument #3: Mutations
June 12, 2014 at 1:12 am
(This post was last modified: June 12, 2014 at 1:14 am by Rampant.A.I..)
(June 11, 2014 at 10:31 pm)Revelation777 Wrote:(June 11, 2014 at 2:36 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote: It is a change of already existing information.
I can give an equally supported refutation to this: no, they don't fail to achieve a 'gain in functioning' mutation.
In fact, we do.
Dear Atheist Friends,
Consider the following:
- Even among evolutionary apologists who search for examples of mutations that are beneficial, the best they can do is to cite damaging mutations that have beneficial side effects (e.g. sickle-cell trait)
Carroll, S.B., The Making of the Fittest: DNA and the ultimate forensic record of evolution, Norton, New York, pp. 174–179, 2006.
http://creation.com/mutations-are-evolutions-end
Rev.
Part of the reason we can trace our heredity with great accuracy and by cross-referencing data, is our mitochondrial DNA contains many failed mutations and other bits of genetic anomalies, that line up exactly with our ape cousins.
http://www.dnalc.org/view/15974-Chimp-an...tDNA-.html