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If the source of information is external to the organism, radiation, viruses and mutagenic chemicals are the most common. What's unnatural about the things I mentioned? What's unnatural about chemistry?The mutations are changes in information, and therefore, by definition, new information. There can be environmental input in their cause, as I explained above.However, the really important input of information from the environment is in the selection process. It is this that causes a mutation that happens to improve function to go to fixation across a population.So, what's necessary to add "coded information", as you describe it, is an information rich environment.A planet with a wide range of ever changing environments will input a great deal of information into varying chemical self-replicators.We live on such a planet. Information is all around us, ready to be absorbed.

Anything you observe that you care to describe as a code or language occurs naturally, so far as our observations can tell us.

ONE GENETIC MUTATION? What? You'll never learn from reading Conservapedia, Dennis.Here's a chart of just one of the Lenski cultures after 20,000 generations, half way through the experiment, which shows the differences from the ancestral organism. Click on the pic. to enlarge. Here, you see a graph of the increase in fitness over the first 20,000 generations, with another graph inset which shows the sharp increase in mutation rate and fitness after a mutator phenotype appeared and took over the population (at about 26,000 generations).Click Pic. There are over 600 differences from the ancestor at 40,000 generations.Edited by bluegenes, : deleted surplus phrase

A quick search for "amino acid sequences in neucleotides" shows that our Dennis has got a first there, and could start an interesting meme.However, for your phrase "amino acids in DNA", here's a wonderful source that will revolutionise your view of what you see in the lab. The Divine Secrets.Phrase highlighted several paragraphs down.

Try this for a good search: "22 year old experiment", equalling 1 million years of human life, and ONE genetic mutation has occurred."Then try this, and click on the first result. "600 does not equal ONE!"You should now be on my post Message 201, which you avoided replying to.Do you still think that 600 = ONE?When you've answered, I'll show you plenty of evidence for new information and complexity, which seems to be what you're looking for.

Hi, dennis780.I realise that you're nervous about discussing things with me since I pointed out that you didn't know the difference between one mutation and 600 mutations.However, I'm still happy to help you in your earnest request for examples of new information.You'll find this review interesting, as it will help you understand some ways in which new information is produced resulting in phenotype novelty, and how the complexity of genomes can increase easily by mutation. Gene duplication and evolutionary novelty in plants - Lex E. Flagel, Jonathan F. Wendel

You'll be lucky, mate. I'm just posting to say welcome to EvC, and yes, of course, your link showed what Dennis claims he's looking for, but always fails to see.