Originally posted by RJHinds
No, you misunderstand the study. The study determined that natural selection and mutations can not account for new information in DNA that would lead to the modifications necessary for lower to higher life forms as Darwin suggested with the theory of evolution.
The thing these creationists bent on destroying evolution refuse to acknowledge is (or more likely, deliberately misrepresenting) is the FACT that evolution is not a one way street from worse to better. A lot of mutations happen by some kind of stress, less food, less water, too much water, earthquakes, lightning and so forth.
Only some of them lead to a better version, better meaning it can thrive easier with the same amount of food and so forth. One example is the cave newt, it's great great grandparents say 1000 generations removed, had eyes.
Now they are totally blind but they still have the nubs where eyes used to be. That was a case of losing information because in the depths of a cave, eyes had no particular survival value since EVERYTHING in that cave had no light for any kind of optical sensor to sense so it became less and less important as each generation developed and so they lost their eyes.
Evolution is not necessarily going forward with each generation. Information is lost almost as fast as it is gained so it is a wash almost but things manage to get more complex but on very long time scales which of course is the bottom line for creationists
If it takes 12,000 years, it cannot be correct no matter what ANYONE says because my fairy tale book, the bible, tells me otherwise.
Which it doesn't actually, but you YEC's just try to do math thinking every Roger begat Billy who begat Rachael who begat blah blah blah, not realizing these books were written by people who had ZERO concept of deep time and wouldn't have been able to construct ANY kind of a reliable record but does that even occur to YEC's? Most decidedly not, EVERY WORD IS FROM GOD therefore infallibible. (As Patrick Sky sings)