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To: Bellflower

Species have changed. The fossil record traces this quite clearly. Speciation has been observed today. And genetic comparisons trace the route and origin of species quite clearly. Your poroblem is that you don’t understand genetics, nor do you understand evolution. You are citing creationist talking points which are largely of their own derivation. It is an observed fact that species have and do change over time. It is an observed fact that every generation of every living thing has mutatations, including humans. The condition of what you call “the addition of continually more complex genetic information” is an obfuscation. Evolution does not specify the addition or subtraction of genetic information. Your question implies a nonsensical point. The concept of “information” is purely an abstraction or metaphor created by us. The evidence is that the genetics of living things have gone through specific, documented changes over time. It doesn’t matter if it has added or substrated what we artificially call genetic information.

And my original post has no personal attacks. Your ignorance of the subject, and science in general, is displayed clearly in your post. And it is no insult to say reality trump superstition, nor that the minority of Christians who literally interpret the Bible are wrong based on physical evidence and are uncomfortable, to say the least, that their world view is erroneous.


163 posted on 04/22/2008 11:35:07 AM PDT by doc30 (Democrats are to morals what an Etch-A-Sketch is to Art.)
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To: doc30
The concept of “information” is purely an abstraction or metaphor created by us.

Say what? For now I need to get going but I will have to think about how to reply to someone who denies that genes contain information.

168 posted on 04/23/2008 2:32:32 AM PDT by Bellflower (A Brand New Day Is Coming!)
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