[PatrickHenry]

If 1,000 harmful mutations occur for every beneficial one, then how can natural selection select the beneficial one without getting many more of the bad ones along with it?

It's blindingly simple. If the individual survives and breeds, it's been "selected."

I'm really trying to understand your theory, folks, but I'm getting a lot more insults from you than information.

Keep trying. It's not all that difficult.

[Quix]

It would help if the evolution side were infinitely more logical.

[RussP]

RussP wrote:

If 1,000 harmful mutations occur for every beneficial one, then how can natural selection select the beneficial one without getting many more of the bad ones along with it?

PatrickHenry replied:

It's blindingly simple. If the individual survives and breeds, it's been "selected."

RussP replies:

And which mutations have been selected? The one good one along with 1000 bad ones? How does that produce a net gain in fitness to survive?

[Thatcherite]

If 1,000 harmful mutations occur for every beneficial one, then how can natural selection select the beneficial one without getting many more of the bad ones along with it?

F-, flunked evolution 101.

Being called "arrogant" by someone who can type the above sentence after claiming to have read 6-7 books about evolution is starting to feel like a compliment. Go and read the books again Russ; but this time read the pro-mainstream ones with your eyes and mind open. Try to understand the basic principals before you get onto detailed probabilistic math, or you'll just find yourself disproving a creationist straw man.