Chris Hyland
Posts: 705
Joined: Jan. 2006
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Ghost: | Quote | | I think the most fruitful class of mutations on average is gene duplication. Gene duplication + natural selection seems to be a very good way to increase the complexity of the genome. You apparently think that this process does not increase biological information. Would you mind explaining why? |
Dave: | Quote | | This was covered in response to Chris Hyland's post about the supposed 8 alternative mechanisms for evolution, one of which was gene duplication. Please download the thread and do a search beginning just before Thanksgiving and you will find it. If you can't, let me know. |
Just so you know Ghost, Dave didn't explain why gene duplications can't add information. What he said was: | Quote | | IOW … yippee! If mutations are good and are the magic genie which drives evolution, MORE MUTATIONS are even better! Wow! Now this duplicated gene is free to mutate all it wants to! What a wonderful system! |
He also claimed that no one has observed gene duplication, which kind of suggests to me that Dave doesn't spend much time reading the science he claims to refute.
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