Mike says
'Such as - the equivocation of natural selection as a fact, with the FULL claims of the ToE. They are not told that natural selection removes information, and that lots of micro equal lots of micro, BECAUSE we have not been shown even one new design information. Mico=macro is false because -3 + 2 does not equal 5. It is an EXCUSE for the lack of mutations. Where are the experiments showing mutation-DESIGNS.'
Hi Mike.
There are experiments where mutation has added 'new functionality' to an organism. One example is in this April's Scientific American ('The evolution of primate color vision'). Primates have developed 3-color vision, which appears to have arisen by duplication and mutation of a gene to produce a new light-absorbing pigment. This enables primates to distinguish more colours. The experimenters wondered whether a mutation like this would be enough to allow animals to see the colours by itself, or whether there would need to be changes in the brain to enable this to happen.
So, they genetically engineered a mouse (which has 2 colour vision) by adding a gene for a human light absorbing pigment. The mouse was then able to perceive more colours than a normal mouse - showing that there was no need to change anything in the brain.
This shows that duplication and mutation of a pigment gene is sufficient to give new functionality to an organism.
Rich
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