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Quote by: Pooeypants This is completely inline with evolution
It's correct but still doesn't completely conflict with evolution.
This quote shows much misleading. A mutation by definition is change in genetic code. Now the code exists and has survived so long for a reason, because it is suited to the environment. Without a change in the environment, a change in the code can only mean a bad thing.
Beneficial mutations have occurred and has been observed, the most famous being the sickle cell anaemia. If you're a carrier then you're given increased immunity to malaria, meaning you survive better in malaria infested countries. Such is the case in northern Africa where HSc gene is far more common percentage than places without malaria. Clearly, the environmental pressure is at play. |
Yeah OK, using that logic, one could say that, since people born with genetic leg paralysis are unable to walk and so are saved from being killed in traffic accidents, therefore genetic leg paralysis is a "useful genetic feature."
You obviously dont know that Sickle Cell Anemia causes the oxygen-carrying capacities to be weakened due to the unsual shape.
Mutations are "mistakes in the letters when copying a written text." -Pierre-Paul Grassse of the French Academy of Sciences.
A good example is E.Coli, a bacterium whose mutants have been studied very carefully, countless mutations over this long period(since the Permian) have not led to any structural changes.
The mechanisms of Darwinism are flawed