A test for claimed knowledge of how macroevolution occurs

caffeine writes:MC1R is a very famous gene, since it's effect on coloration makes its mutations obvious, and since variation in MC1R plays a role in some of the most immediately obvious variation amongst humans. For the same reasons of obvious phenotypic effect, MC1R has been extensively studied in other animals. Wild boar, for example, are monotypic for MC1R - all wild animals have the same allele. Domestic pigs, however, have at least four different MC1R alleles, which contribute to the huge variation in colour of domestic breeds. Now, it is of course possible that the ancestral wild population contained all these alleles, which have coincidentally been lost by drift in the reduced wild population. It seems much more likely to me, though, that these are all post-domestication mutations which have spread once pigs were removed from the selective constraints of camouflage. This sort of thing has presumably created the canvas from which breeders have selected in many domesticated species.

Faith writes:And since you note that there are recognizable differences between chimp and human organs and bones although we have the same organs and bones, evolution has the task of making all those "small" changes in all those parts of the body. Seems to me that's a case of the usual wishful thinking that fuels all the assumptions of the ToE.

Faith writes:What I doubt is that they make useful alleles.

Faith writes:Seems to me both the peppered moths and the pocket mice used to be described in more drastic terms: it threatens their very existence if they don't get the other color to save them.

Anyway, the way both situations are being described now there never was really any controversy. So I guess I got it wrong. Both colors were always available and the protective color proliferated when the background made it necessary since the predators would pick off the contrasting color. No controversy after all, nothing interesting really.

Faith writes:Different alleles for different genes in different individuals among other things.

Faith writes:I think you are misreading the evidence.

Faith writes:God doesn't make changes, He designed a genome for each creature and let it do its thing.

Faith writes:The sequence.

Faith writes:Are beneficial mutations rare or not?

Faith writes:Each genome is unique. It has nothing to do with mutations at all.

Faith writes:I guess they happen once in a very great while but the original created genome doesn't need them.

Faith writes:It follows from my model which is different from yours.

Faith writes:All changes in DNA are called mutations by eve-os, that's not evidence.

Faith writes:Where is the evidence supporting yours?

Faith writes:You simply call the many differences between genomes mutations, you don't prove it and you can't prove it.