Calculus, Logic, Music and the Human Brain

[Statler Waldorf]

I don't know, maybe show how you came to that conclusion, if it doesn't involve another Creationist spoonfeeding it to you.

You posted an article spoon fed to you by evolutionists. No special pleading please.

That's not how it works, buddy. You made an assertion. Back it up or admit that you are just saying it is a loss because you do not actually understand anything about genetics.

In mammals, the normal course of events is for the newborn to subsist on milk over the first few months of life, then be weaned and rarely if ever consume milk again. It thus makes perfect sense that mammals have evolved a developmental pattern of small intestinal gene expression that promotes high level production of lactase early in life, followed by a turnoff of lactase expression around the time of weaning. This is indeed what happens in almost all mammals, including most humans.

http://www.vivo.colostate.edu/hbooks/pat...intol.html

This turnoff of the gene’s expression requires a genetic mechanism. Genetic expressions don’t just magically turn on and off. If the mechanism is damaged by a mutation, the turnoff will not take place completely or even at all resulting in lactose persistence.

What structure, Stat? How do you know it was a structure rendered useless as opposed to an addition that rendered the structure useless? How do you know it is less and not more. Plenty of blind people are born. I've never heard a Creationist says it was because evolution is real, it just takes away from people. Besides, Stat, no one has said evolution is perfect, but you claim your god is. Why is it then that he makes some people blind?

It doesn’t matter whether it is an addition or reduction that causes the mechanism to be useless. Adding Shannon information that results in a net loss of semantic information (the functional structure) is still a loss of genetic information because when we speak of genetic information we are speaking of semantic information, not Shannon information. I will give you an example…

“The dog is black.”
This sentence has a certain amount of semantic information because it has functional meaning.
Now if I add four bits of Shannon information (iiii) to the sentence…
“Tihe doig isi bilack.”
Even though I have increased the net amount of Shannon information (from 17 bits to 21 bits), the amount of semantic information was completely lost because the sentence has lost all functional meaning. So that’s what I mean when I say a loss in genetic information.

Part of the result of the fall was physical corruption, so we’d expect to see people born with particular disorders and hardships. This is one advantage creationism has over the ID movement, creationists have an explanation for corrupted designs, IDers struggle with it.