Some novelty in evolution comes about through regulated cellular responses. The stress response that leads to expression of error prone DNA polymerase is one such regulated cellular response - and it DOES lead to novelty in evolution.
Care to describe to me how some 8% or less of the bacterial genome can be a “tote bag” for innumerable ‘discarded’ mutations for every possible gene in the bacterial genome for every possible stress it might encounter?
Besides if you even agree that there IS such a thing as novelty in evolution - as Shapiro posits - why would it have to come from some “tote bag”?
If it was there but unused until it was needed it wouldn't be “novel” now would it?
No, but it is to support your assertion that it is directly involved in the response to insult.
Care to describe to me how some 8% or less of the bacterial genome can be a “tote bag” for innumerable ‘discarded’ mutations for every possible gene in the bacterial genome for every possible stress it might encounter?
No, it only has to tote some things.
Besides if you even agree that there IS such a thing as novelty in evolution - as Shapiro posits - why would it have to come from some “tote bag”?
It doesn't just have to come from the tote bag. But there are things that are important to have. Speaking of bacteria, their tote bag also involves the outside world. So the bacterial tote bag carried within the cell can be smaller than otherwise. If you had listened to the lecture carefully, you would understand that.