Atheism evolution the ultimate question?

Question

Can you give an example of a genetic mutation or an Evoluionary process which can be seen to increase the information in the genome?



MAX.

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Answer 1

Max
think of the information as a set of instructions.

this information is what determines how something is made in the growing process. The information is altered (by definition of one user as observable changes in the allele) making a variation in the species.

Now to you and me, that is not evolution. Evolution by what I understand it to be, is life rising from a lifeless earth and the cells becoming more and more complex. That is evolution as I understand it.

When people in college start talking evolution ( worked for a year for a director of a bio level 3 lab that works with infectious diseases and we would talk evolution, and I would ask, how did we go from 1 cell to multicellular life forms he would never answer me. I suppose because to do so would be intellectual suicide.

We had a lot of debates as long as the scope of the debate was very narrow and did not deal with punctuated equilibrium which is the theory that higher forms of life just suddenly appeared. If you will, a rattle snake laid and egg and we get a warm blooded mammal. You and I both know this is accepting a level of faith in science that science never intended for anyone to accept. But it is part of the ideas that people fight about.

For any valid, evolution accepted principal you offer, there is always going to be a defense. People want to believe what they want to believe and even if the truth is there, they don't have to accept it, nor will they.

My own opinion is that if they want the truth, they will have to come to the facts without a preconcieved opinion and look objectively, honestly and factually at what is there.

Answer 2

Evolution requires natural selection. Natural selection requires an organism that can reproduce and has DNA. If you are asking this question of honest evolutionists, they will admit that the formation of DNA was not an evolutionary process since evolution cannot take place without it. When asked how DNA was therefore formed, they will claim
(1) it formed by a process of chemical evolution. This is simply a false statement because chemistry alone does not provide any kind of evolutionary mechanism.
(2) it formed by a process of random chemical interactions in a swamp, helped along by the occaisional lightening strike. That this breaks the law of entropy and involves a probability of 1 in 10^300 is conveniently overlooked. Note that all of the atomic events in all of the atoms in the universe since the beginning of time 15 billion years ago adds up to approx. 10^130 events.
(3) it formed by some process which science is incapable of explaining at the present time but will be understood eventually. If only these evolutionists would study a bit of theology they could understand it now!

Answer 3

Let me start by saying I am a creationist and a scientist. The answer to your question though is simple. Gene duplication events are one way in which information can be increased in the genome. These duplicated genes are more likely to experience mutations and thus can possibly develop new functions. This would increase the information in the genome.

Cosmo - look up the c-value paradox. Genome size does not mean increased complexity. If it does then there are several plants that are more complex than humans. Might want to make sure you know your science before quoting it.

Answer 4

Evolution as a whole increases the information in the genome. The DNA of complex lifeforms obviously contains more "information" than that of less complex lifeforms---that's what makes them more complex. This is essentially a side effect of natural selection. A mutation is a random event that does not, in itself, add information. It is the selectivity of the environment that enhances the beneficial genes and suppresses the harmful genes.

Answer 5

"Increase the information"? It is a meaningless strawman term. Mutations are retained if they don't kill the organism before it manages to reproduce.

One way for a mutation to change an entire species is through an environment change....for example, blasting a type of bacteria with antibiotics...eventually the bacteria without a certain type of mutation dies and all that is left is drug-resistant strains.

Answer 6

Troll, straw man, idiot.


But if you actually want an example, Here you go!

Edit to Max: You have a piss-poor (to put it nicely) concept of evolution. It is nice that you went out of your way to include your educational background on the subject in the hopes of giving your fallacious logic more credence.

To Morkie: It's simply amazing how quickly you make the jump from evolution to abiogenesis. Thanks again for setting up straw men on a different subject than was asked about. Keep studying theology, it's really working for you!

Answer 7

By "ultimate question" do you mean this is the last one to be asked?

What a relief!

Do a bit of reading on the FOXp2 gene.

Answer 8

"Increase the information" is a meaningless phrase in the context of evolution. It's meant to play on the misconception that evolution is progressive.

Don't get your information from creationist propaganda - it's leading you astray. Sorry - but you can easily avoid this problem by ignoring those propaganda sites/organizations.

Answer 9

Can you provide evidence that people mysteriously pop into existence?

Answer 10

every infection with any virus increase the information.