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Originally posted by mopsveldmuis:
Could you please expand a bit on what you meant by "the whole creationist argument about beneficial mutations"?
One of the creationist arguments concerning evolution that I
have come across is that there are no beneficial mutations
and therefore evolution didn't happen.
If the nested start/stops were added to the genome by mutation
they were clearly beneficial, so we have two contradictory
creationist arguments.
Likewise, if the 'errors' were added and lead to modern biochemical
pathways then IC must be a false lead.
If on the otherhand God created all genomes as they currently
exist ... would you expect a perfect creation to have such
a mess in areas of it's genome ... the so called junk-DNA
(and I know that's no longer favoured) alone is not suggestive
of lack of design, but nested starts is. Two stops in a row
means that the section in between is unreachable, surely.
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