Originally posted by RJHinds
This video says that adaptation and mutation does not produce new genetic imformation, therefore, evolution is impossible.
...mutation does not produce new genetic imformation...
-and reminder of just two of the many reasons why this claim is proven false:
Proof 1:
We know that a mutation can occur that is then reversed by another mutation later on. Such reversible mutations have been observed often including in bacteria which do not reproduce sexually so that the reverse mutation couldn't have merely came from a copy of the original gene from another 'mate' ( exactly what 'barrier' would stop any possibility of the reverse mutation occurring anyway? ) .
If the first mutation resulted in a 'lost of information' then the reverse mutation MUST, LOGICALLY, result in the GAIN of that information.
Thus POOVING that a mutation CAN ( and also sometimes DOES given the evidence – see http://www.springerlink.com/content/n4l77r6h77064172/ and http://www.esp.org/foundations/genetics/classical/holdings/l/slmd-43.pdf for evidence of this occurring in bacteria ) result in a GIAN of information.
Proof 2:
We have proof that sometimes a mutation consists of an extra copy of a chromosome being made. This can be viewed as “adding new information” depending on how you define “new information”. If that extra chromosome then eventually mutates, which it would inevitable do so given sufficient time ( this is called “genetic drift” and we have proof that it happens ), and so becomes different from the other copy in that same genome then, no matter how you look at it and no matter how you define “new information”, it becomes IMPOSSIBLE to deny that that combination of chromosome duplication followed by one of the two chromosome copies mutating to become different from the other copy must provide new information.
-sorry, just not going to let people forget that you have been proven wrong else you will forever help propagate these lies unchecked.