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  • Can any one name at least one benifitial mutation? I really would like to know at least.

  • Nylon-eating bacteria.

  • natural selections makes sense....but BILLIONS of RANDOM and BENEFICIAL mutations? nah!

  • So a mutation that makes you have more hair isnt benefitial in the colder regions of earth? The answear is yes.. it is benefitial which is why the mammoths evolved into elephants when they travelled south because you can barely breathe with such fur on.

    About the billions of random mutuations.. do you mean the accumilated or per some particular being in their lifetime?

    Random fact: The modern day homo sapiens mutate aprox 100 times in their lifetime

  • Well, say that 1% of those mutations is beneficial. Natural seleciton picks THAT ONE PERCENT, the rest die. Got it?

  • there is no correct mutation. thousand of mutations happen at nature every day and million have happend to a specie since it first appeared. some mutations are bad and they fail resolving to a mutated gene to disappear after a while. Same goes for mutations that are benefitial making the specie stronger those stay with the specie cause as stronger they reproduce more.

  • What an idiot. I ask you to learn science! Please!

  • Hmmm...maybe you might want to learn some critical thinking skills, Ireel...

    Try this on for size...

    We have 5 THOUSAND years' worth of descriptions of horses, crocs, spiders, and Man. In those 5K years, why haven't there been any mutations noted? Why haven't there been any new species?

    Answer? Evolution would go against the Law of Entropy. The system is in place, and CANNOT be changed. It can only be kept in order by outside input. We aren't that input. Think about it...

  • @cecilbdml

    "why haven't there been any mutations noted in horses, crocs, spiders, and man in 5k years?"

    5k years is not much, and you are looking at the wrong animals. Crocodiles haven't changed in 200 million years. Also, the differences needed to actually notice them in "descriptions" from 5k years ago (we're talking cave drawings here) are actually quite substantial. Check out the banana fly from Hawaii for recent, documented evolution.

    Please explain why evolution would go against entropy

  • Right on man, right on

  • HE'S QUITE FAT, ISN'T HE?!

  • Yes.

    It didn't make his argument any less valid, though.

    Damn fatty. Not that I care AT ALL.

  • Simple? The only reason evolution "seems" so simple is because people like this give ludicrous examples of how these mutations could add more wings or better eyes. Have we all forgotten that mutations are harmful to life? They have done MANY experiments on fruit flies by mutating their DNA. Have they ever seen one change into a butterfly or dragonfly or moth or anything .. absolutely not! It doesn't happen.

  • And if it happened it would actually be an argument AGAINST Evolution, as something like that truly requires Divine Intervention.

    What has been observed in the fruitflies however, is that mutated creatures can dominate "normal" creatures. I saw one such experiment once where a color mutation eventually reached the entire population.

  • As for developing additional wings, it's clearly explained by duplication errors. Several "switch" genes have been identified that will trigger the growth of for instance legs or eyes. Where these switches appear in the genetic blueprint controls where the body parts are grown.

    So simple mutations can have dramatic effects - if they change the nature of these switch genes.

  • i felt like I was watching "a clockwork orange"

  • if one fruit fly had these mutations and passed the genes on wouldn't the mutations eventual be absorbed into the fruit fly population hence making no lasting change.

  • I love how creationists are always blabbing "Evolution Versus Creationism!" Scientists never put anything "VS anything, unless its observation 1 vs. observation 1. Right on with the explanation, though.

  • It's amazing how simple evolution is. Yet many still believe the creation story to be true, dispite all the double talk, ignoring obvious inconsistencies, and necessity to explain thing away by the need of "faith."

  • Evolution is simple? Since you are so knowledgeable, explain to me how a single eukaryotic cell becomes each species on the planet. Since it's so simple, it shouldn't take you too long to explain. To anyone that isn't as brilliant as RedCeltic, learn about evolution before you try to argue for it. Don't think that humans evolved from apes. If that is the extent of your learning, do a little more studying.

  • Haha.. I don't see any need to be hostile to me. I wasn't atempting to sound superior. I did major in anthropology in college... yet I was really saying it's simple in comparison to the hocus pokus of the Bible.

  • "explain to me how a single eukaryotic cell becomes each species on the planet."

    Thats easy, they didnt.. straw man arguement.

    You wouldnt say a mammoth became an elephant either in the same way. Can you even comprehend the magnitude of the time in earth's history?

    I bet not because i think you're a creationist and think the world is 6000 years old...

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