To use the language “why would a bacteria want such and such genetic mechanism for a survival advantage” is to accept the premise that evolutionary forces are running things.
It should be clear by now that I don’t accept this premise.
Genetic error is disorder, thus entropic.
One doesn’t have to accept the premise that evolutionary “forces” are “running things” to see that...
1) bacteria have a gene for error prone DNA polymerase in addition to their high fidelity DNA polymerase.
2) this gene is expressed when the bacteria experience stress.
3) the result of its expression is an increase in changes in DNA during stress.
Now the power of scientific theory is that it provides explanation.
You say that to explain it you would have to “accept the premise”; so I guess no explanation will EVER be forthcoming.
Once again you demonstrate how Creationism is useless as an explanatory model.
Why does a bacteria have an error prone DNA polymerase that it expresses during times of high stress?
‘No idea. Don’t want to know. Not interested in accepting the premise that would make it understandable. Would go completely against my previous statements that mutation doesn’t lead to higher functionality’