Mutation
Mutation is believed to be the source of our genetic code.  I say believed because there is no evidence of really new information being written by mutation.  Additional copies of a gene are just that, aditional copies.  Likewise damaged copies of a gene are just that damaged copies.  Mutations are very good at damaging the gene pool they do not add 'de facto, new genetic information.

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                                                                                                      natural selection

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                                                                                                      genetic death

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Adding to the Gene Pool Controversy

This was the question an Australian camera crew asked Richard Dawkins.  "Give an example of a genetic mutation or an evolutionary process which can be seen to increase the information in the genome"

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There was no straight forward answer to this question and Dawkins claims to have rumbled that he was being interviewed by Creationists because, "It is the kind of question only a creationist would ask in that way".  In all fairness it is a question that begs an answer, irrespective of who asks it.  It cuts through the fog of gene duplication, damaged genes and asks for a genuinely new gene as evidence.  That Dawkins felt trapped by the question is precicely because it has not been addressed -it is basic evolution 101.

 

View the awkward question at - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OQHgcx2_5o

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