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To: gore3000
DNA is very complex and a single mutation is not even the beginning of a new functionality.

This is false, and is directly contradicted by posts 349 and 356.

Some references

Predicting the emergence of antibiotic resistance by directed evolution and structural analysis. Orencia, M. Cecilia; Yoon, Jun S.; Ness, Jon E.; Stemmer, Willem P. C.; Stevens, Raymond C. Department of Molecular Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA. Nature Structural Biology (2001), 8(3), 238-242.

Evolution of an antibiotic resistance enzyme constrained by stability and activity trade-offs. Wang, Xiaojun; Minasov, George; Shoichet, Brian K. Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Biological Chemistry, Northwestern University School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA. Journal of Molecular Biology (2002), 320(1), 85-95.

357 posted on 09/12/2003 8:21:05 AM PDT by Right Wing Professor
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To: Right Wing Professor
DNA is very complex and a single mutation is not even the beginning of a new functionality.-me-

This is false, and is directly contradicted by posts 349 and 356.

Resistance to outside agents is not a new function. All life needs that to survive. It does not turn the bacteria into something new or into anything different or more complex. A new function would be resistance to outside agents not to a single particular outside agent. A change in hair color does not turn a woman into a new species even though it may make her look a bit more attractive. These simple changes are not evolution. Evolution requires new organs, new genes, new abilities, new functionality, and single mutations do not provide that.

361 posted on 09/12/2003 7:35:27 PM PDT by gore3000 (Knowledge is the antidote to evolution.)
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