someone else wrote:
another one wrote:Mutations happen all the time. You agree that natural selection happens. Care to explain how evolution doesn't happen?
You obviously know nothing about science. Natural selection dilutes the genetic variability, decreasing the amount of further variability with each generation. Mutations are generally harmful, and even in specific cases where they appear beneficial, they are really detrimental in a 'real world' situation. Furthermore, mutations only result in a change of existing information, or a net loss of information. In order for evolution to occur, there must not only be a gain in information (has never been observed), it would have to be so large that we would observe it happening all the time, and it would have to be enough to make up for the staggering loss of information that occurs regularly with each mutation.
Oh boy, here we go again. What the f*** do you mean, "a net gain in formation has never been observed"? Just because you say that's true, doesn't make it so. Net gains in information are observed all the time. Say you have the following DNA sequence:
ATCGATCG
Due to an error in the copying mechanism, that sequence is copied twice (happens all the time). Now that same sequence is:
ATCGATCGATCGATCG
Add a few mutations over the generations. and suddenly:
ATCGATCGATCGATCC
ATCGATCGATCCATCC
ATCGATCGAACGATCC
ATCGATCGATCGGTCC
You now have a piece of information (whatever the f*** that is [hint: nothing in biology]) that is twice as long as my initial piece of "information" and it specifies some new amino acids.