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Bill wrote:
Keith (http://keithdevens.com/) wrote:
Bill, he's talking about mechanisms of increasing information in the genetic code. Natural selection only reduces information within a species, and, to simply quote him "That leaves chance mutations as the only source of the new information. You have to have all these new genes coding for new features, all interacting precisely with one another, continually arising as animals get more complex, by chance. To believe that, you have to have a lot of faith." We have not observed genetic mutations creating an increase in genetic information over millions of years... it's simply not an observable process.
69.141.113.74 wrote:
seemed apropos in this discussion:
Interspecies Sex: Evolution's Hidden Secret? - National Geographic
Had always learned that this sort of this was impossible.
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Dr Veith uses an illogical foundation for his misguided attack on the concept of natural selection. He completely removes it from the realm of science where it belongs in order to mislead others. He may honestly be misleading himself. Either way, it is unfortunate. There is no need for faith when you are making observations of a natural process.
Natural selection is the term used to describe an observed process of trait survival. That is it ladies and gentlemen. There are no decisions being made, and there are innumerable characteristics in every organism that can be selected in or out depending on environmental factors, so mutation need not apply. When mutution does occur, it is usually detrimental or useless and does not get passed down, but over the course of millions of years, the word usually becomes a certainty, meaning mutations do find their way into evolution, but it is misleading to connect natural selection to mutation as Dr Veith did.