lol... for anyone to argue that ALL mutations are wrong would be silliness. For all generalisations there are exceptions.
I think the ID argument is that yes, although there are (relatively few and far between) beneficial mutations, new "protein families" do not form. For example, antibiotic resistance-many types of antibiotic resistance occur via the increased expression of genes which would otherwise breakdown the antibiotic before the antibiotic kills the bacteria.
Beneficial mutations such as sickle cell, haemoglobin C are all point mutations and as such do not create new "protein families".
I think they also argue that the rate of production of new alleles might not be enough to compensate the loss due to deaths.
I'd suspect that theistic evolutionists would argue the opposite. That yes, you begin with a "multi-purpose genome" or something along those lines, and this genome diverges as "non-random mutations" produce new genes, with these non-random mutations having a greater impact if the population is small, and thus evolution occuring faster.
I don't know. Don't quote me on this
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