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’
Mendel’s laws explains limited and bounded variations.
IF macro-evolution occurs, bacterial organisms with the fastest reproduction rates should have the most variations and mutations. Natural selection would choose the most favorable changes thus allowing these organisms to dominate. Therefore, organisms that have evolved the most would have the shortest reproduction cycles and many offspring.
Also consider the fruit fly experiments with fast reproduction cycles and many grotesque and useless mutations imposed upon them. Yet when the experiments were stopped the fruit fly populations returned to ‘normal’ within a very few generations.
But the opposite appears where more complex organisms, such as humans, have fewer offspring and longer reproduction cycles yet number among the highest rates of variation.
Organisms in many diverse environments and greater numbers should, according to macro-evolution, have the greatest potential for evolving new features and species. And yet their population numbers are astronomical, their dispersed throughout every extreme environment, while their actual number of species and variation is relatively small.
Please do explain allmendream.