I found thios quote, regarding the ever denfended "randome mutation" process very telling:
There is clear evidence from organisms as diverse as humans and bacteria that genomes do indeed contain information that can focus mutations in certain areas and direct it away from others. Yet students are still taught that evolution works through completely random genetic variation acted upon by natural selection, leading to the survival of those organisms with genes best suited to their environment. Surely it is time to rethink the idea that evolution is purely a game of chance: to accept that genomes could have evolved information that allows them to influence genetic change and affect their own chances of survival?
L. H. Caporale, “Genomes don’t play dice,” New Scientist, March 6, 2004.
Which then is summarized and restated here:
Not only has life evolved, but life has evolved to evolve. … The rates at which the various events within the hierarchy of evolutionary moves occur are not random or arbitrary but are selected by Darwinian evolution.
D. J. Earl, M. W. Deem, “Evolvability is a selectable trait,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 101 (2004): 11531-11536.
With these realizations, and some of the evidence cited from "K. Johnson, “Lizards rapidly evolve after introduction to island,” National Geographic News April 21, 2008."
“Italian wall lizards introduced to a tiny island off the coast of Croatia are evolving in ways that would normally take millions of years to play out, new research shows.”
The plausibility of the rich diversity of species we witness today coming from a pair off the ark a mere 4500 years ago (or so) has increased substantialy to the honest truth-seeker.
BTW, a brilliant article, thanks for the pointer!
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[[There is clear evidence from organisms as diverse as humans and bacteria that genomes do indeed contain information that can focus mutations in certain areas and direct it away from others.]]
Metainfo (something that can NOT arise naturally- ESPECIALLY from simlistic chemical infromation) MUST exist beforehand in order for even MICROevolution to happen- Metainfo is a marvelous system that anticipates change, has the informaiton laready present to deal with microevolution, directs, controls, and regulates change in such a way as to preserve the species in it’s own kind, and to try to help prevent species deterioration within parameters specific to that species- MACROEvolution on the other hand NEEDS to have a metainfo system inplace which anticipates non species specific infromation being introduced which is foreign to that species, however, it has been shown through numerous lab experiments that metainfo is psecies specific and very specified and custom created for each species.