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Author Topic:   Mutation and its role in evolution: A beginners guide
Faith 
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Message 11 of 60 (342859)
08-23-2006 9:52 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by Wounded King
08-23-2006 10:23 AM


Sorry I somehow overlooked this thread
Hi WK, Sorry, although I thought I looked, I didn't see this thread you put up as we'd discussed you might do, and I just ended up putting together a PNT of my own, which I also thought should go in a science forum after all.
But maybe I can adjust mine to the Theological Creationism thread somehow. It does, after all, raise the usual YEC concerns.
In setting up my PNT I collected a couple of definitions of mutations, one that defines it as the "driving force of evolution." Your definition is more tentative on that score. But it makes sense to me that it is the engine that drives evolution if evolution is true. There's no other process that generates new genetic material. All the other processes merely select or rearrange existing genetic material.
But I do have to say this thread of yours is most likely going to be way over my head. I will try to follow it but I wonder if I'll even be able to come up with a useful question.
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