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To: Michael_Michaelangelo
From the article you cited:

It would appear that the questioner is under the mistaken impression that beneficial mutations are a problem for creationists. Some creationists make this unfortunate error. The mutations Q&A section of our Web site clearly teaches that the issue is not whether the mutation is beneficial but if it adds new genetic information (specified complexity). So it would have been clear that the A-I Milano mutation is not evidence for microbe-to-man evolution

No point reading after this. This is what's known as "squirreling the subject." Increased complexity is not a requirement of evolution, except in the minds of creationists.

248 posted on 08/03/2004 1:45:58 PM PDT by Modernman ("I have nothing to declare except my genius." -Oscar Wilde)
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To: Modernman
Talk.Origins has already shredded AiG's argument that this clearly beneficial mutation represents a loss of information (whatever the heck that is supposed to mean in this context).

It's not that creationists lie like leftists, in the way we usually think of the term "lie". It's that they are forced to swallow whole classes of FUD-generation techniques whole. They end up totally convinced that they are using the best arguments & logic possible, even as they get more & more divorced from reality & logical self-consistency. You'd think it should destroy their ability to think in general - and yet they tend to be good conservatives. Go figure.

286 posted on 08/03/2004 3:54:42 PM PDT by jennyp (Tremble and cower, Osama! John Edwards is comin' to getcha!)
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