[timburton]

>>>“This fascinating and unanticipated new property of DNA has the potential to cause substantial damage to our cells, leading to cancer or other diseases, unless it is controlled or exploited for some beneficial purpose,” she said. “We will stay tuned.”<<<

Looks like the Law of Entropy strikes again, and the biggest objection (apart from irrationality of matter being eternal) to genetic evolution stays. There are NO good mutations.

[D-fendr]

Those little spirals are SMART!

[bobdsmith]

Every mutation has an opposite mutation. So if bad mutations exist then so do good mutations, in equal quantity.

[Quark2005]

There are NO good mutations.

A vast range of scientific Information to the contrary, courtesy Ichneumon

Directed evolution of biosynthetic pathways. Recruitment of cysteine thioethers for constructing the cell wall of Escherichia coli

Directed evolution of a type I antifreeze protein expressed in Escherichia coli with sodium chloride as selective pressure and its effect on antifreeze tolerance

Molecular evolution of an arsenate detoxification pathway by DNA shuffling

Long-term experimental evolution in Escherichia coli. XIII. Phylogenetic history of a balanced polymorphism

Rates of DNA sequence evolution in experimental populations of Escherichia coli during 20,000 generations

The evolutionary origin of complex features

Contribution of individual random mutations to genotype-by-environment interactions in Escherichia coli

Rapid phenotypic change and diversification of a soil bacterium during 1000 generations of experimental evolution

Bacterial evolution and the cost of antibiotic resistance

The ecology and genetics of fitness in Chlamydomonas. IX. The rate of accumulation of variation of fitness under selection.

Mild environmental stress elicits mutations affecting fitness in Chlamydomonas

The emergence and maintenance of diversity: insights from experimental bacterial populations

Direct Estimate of the Mutation Rate and the Distribution of Fitness Effects in the Yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Pleiotropic effects of beneficial mutations in Escherichia coli

The Rate of Compensatory Mutation in the DNA Bacteriophage X174

Mutation-selection balance accounting for genetic variation for viability in Drosophila melanogaster as deduced from an inbreeding and artificial selection experiment

Genetic restriction of HIV-1 infection and progression to AIDS by a deletion allele of the CKR5 structural gene

Complete Rescue of Lipoprotein Lipase–Deficient Mice by Somatic Gene Transfer of the Naturally Occurring LPL^S447X Beneficial Mutation

Evolution and Information: The Nylon Bug

Spontaneous mutations in diploid Saccharomyces cerevisiae: more beneficial than expected

Nonuniform concerted evolution and chloroplast capture: heterogeneity of observed introgression patterns in three molecular data partition phylogenies of Asian Mitella (saxifragaceae)

Evolutionary analysis of genetic variation observed in citrus tristeza virus (CTV) after host passage

Examples of Beneficial Mutations and Natural Selection

Genetic Variant Showing a Positive Interaction With ß-Blocking Agents With a Beneficial Influence on Lipoprotein Lipase Activity, HDL Cholesterol, and Triglyceride Levels in Coronary Artery Disease Patients

Genetic restriction of HIV-1 infection and progression to AIDS by a deletion allele of the CKR5 structural gene

Evolution of new information

Spontaneous mutations in diploid Saccharomyces cerevisiae: more beneficial than expected

Are Mutations Harmful?

Evolution and Information: The Nylon Bug

Directed evolution of human estrogen receptor variants with significantly enhanced androgen specificity and affinity

Multiple duplications of yeast hexose transport genes in response to selection in a glucose-limited environment

Complete Rescue of Lipoprotein Lipase–Deficient Mice by Somatic Gene Transfer of the Naturally Occurring LPL^S447X Beneficial Mutation

Punctuated evolution caused by selection of rare beneficial mutations.

PLEIOTROPIC EFFECTS OF BENEFICIAL MUTATIONS IN ESCHERICHIA COLI

The Distribution of Fitness Effects Among Beneficial Mutations

Incidentally, there is no law that says the entropy of DNA can't decrease through time.

[Dimensio]

Looks like the Law of Entropy strikes again, and the biggest objection (apart from irrationality of matter being eternal) to genetic evolution stays.

What, exactly, does the "Law of Entropy" state?

There are NO good mutations

I am afraid that your claim is demonstratably false.

[cccp_hater]

"There are NO good mutations."

If you are trying to say that every mutation is deleterious you are simply incorrect. Though the majority of mutations are deleterious (lethal mutations are fairly rare)to the fitness of the organism, neutral mutations also make up a large percentage of total mutations. Adaptive mutations, though rare, do in fact occur at a fairly high rate when given the population sizes (billions/trillions of organisms) usually discussed in the natural world.