[GodGunsGuts]

==The ability to adapt IS built right in!

Nice try. I’m talking about an ability to adapt that has been frontloaded into the organism, not blind, stupid random mutations that occasionally hit the jackpot and produce a beneficial mutation every couple of million years.

[allmendream]

How? What mechanism if not through mutation of DNA that leads to a beneficial arrangement of amino acids into a protein that performs a new function, or the same function at higher temperatures etc? Why not? What do you have against the KNOWN, DOCUMENTED, and WELL STUDIED phenomena of natural selection of genetic variation? What does your unproposed mechanism have going for it that makes it superior? Certainly not evidence.

Nothing is stupid about random mutation, especially after you consider the scope of life and time and that a limited heat stress evolution experiment on a limited population of bacteria went through EVERY POSSIBLE combination of single changes in a protein. Trying every possible combination is hardly random.

[Coyoteman]

...not blind, stupid random mutations that occasionally hit the jackpot and produce a beneficial mutation every couple of million years.

Do you have any scientific evidence for that pitifully low frequency of beneficial mutations?

(And you better be careful talking about millions of years or your YEC buddies will get after you.)