Mutations
Do Mutations Drive Evolution?
In the evolutionary model, mutations are hailed as a dominant mechanism for pond-scum-to-people evolution and provide “proof ” that the Bible’s history about creation is wrong. But are we to trust the ideas of imperfect, fallible men about how we came into existence?
Mutations and New Genetic Information
If new genetic information—required to build eyes where there are none, for example—does not occur in nature, then evolution is stuck in the water. For evolutionists, the solution comes in the form of mutations. The problem is that the only beneficial mutations ever observed do not add new information to the genome.
Mutations in Viruses
This study illustrates the fact that natural selection can operate on a series of mutations and even on other organisms to produce a population change with a noticeably new characteristic. Yet for all that, the result was diversity within a kind.
Mutations Could Help in Finding HIV Vaccine
Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) has frustrated efforts to create an effective vaccine. Analysis of naturally developed antibodies in a few infected patients, however, has uncovered a pattern in HIV mutations, a pattern that could be the key to developing an HIV vaccine.
Mutations Topics
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"Directed Evolution" in MIT LaboratoryMay 15, 2010
“Directed evolution” sounds like a page out of the theistic evolutionist’s playbook. So what’s it doing turning up in an MIT laboratory?
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Making the Evolution Pill Easier to SwallowNov. 9, 2009
According to one presenter at a recent Darwin and medicine conference, children with birth defects are “bumps” in the road on our way to becoming more evolved.
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Are You a Mutant?Sept. 5, 2009 from News to Know
A team of researchers has added to our knowledge of the genetic mutation rate in humans, as they report in Current Biology.
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Leaps of Developmental LogicJuly 25, 2009 from News to Know
Small biological changes that take generations—like some birds’ beaks growing longer or shorter in certain ecological niches—can be explained and understood by creationists and evolutionists. But when it comes to explaining developmental “leaps,” evolutionists must make a leap of logic.
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A Reminder That DNA Mutations Are More Counterproductive Than HelpfulDec. 6, 2008
From mid-November, a reminder that mutations are nearly always counterproductive.
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Scientists Raise the Dead and Kill the LivingNov. 4, 2006
Scientists have “reversed evolution”-converting a modern enzyme into its “theoretical distant ancestor” in one case, and reactivating a supposedly five-million-year-old retrovirus in the other.
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How We Got Red Hair (It Wasn’t By Evolution)May 3, 2006
Recent research has shown that red hair in people often results from mutations in just one gene.
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A Feet of ImaginationMarch 17, 2006
No story related to human evolution has drawn as much press in recent times as the account of family members in Turkey who walk hunched over, using their hands as well as feet to ambulate.
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Special Tools of LifeMay 12, 2004
Did you know that living things make their own tools? For example, they use enzymes to break down large molecules for parts (building blocks) and some for energy.
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Magazine ArticleThe ‘Werewolf’ GeneDec. 1, 1995, pp. 51–52
The general public is bombarded with evolutionary propaganda. A good example of such was found in a recent newspaper article titled 'Scientists move closer to finding "werewolf" gene'.
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Magazine ArticleAre Mutations Helpful?June 1, 1990, pp. 51–52
Because natural selection can only choose from what is there, evolutionists must have faith that somehow mutations provide the new raw material for living things to evolve into other life forms.
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Magazine ArticleIn Brief—D.N.A. Mutation and DesignMay 1, 1984, pp. 18–19
The living cell is a marvellous, complex piece of machinery. It contains energy converters (mitochondria), production factories (golgi bodies), and the ability to repair or duplicate itself.
Articles About Mutations
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"Directed Evolution" in MIT LaboratoryMay 15, 2010
“Directed evolution” sounds like a page out of the theistic evolutionist’s playbook. So what’s it doing turning up in an MIT laboratory?
-
Making the Evolution Pill Easier to SwallowNov. 9, 2009
According to one presenter at a recent Darwin and medicine conference, children with birth defects are “bumps” in the road on our way to becoming more evolved.
-
Are You a Mutant?Sept. 5, 2009 from News to Know
A team of researchers has added to our knowledge of the genetic mutation rate in humans, as they report in Current Biology.
-
Leaps of Developmental LogicJuly 25, 2009 from News to Know
Small biological changes that take generations—like some birds’ beaks growing longer or shorter in certain ecological niches—can be explained and understood by creationists and evolutionists. But when it comes to explaining developmental “leaps,” evolutionists must make a leap of logic.
-
A Reminder That DNA Mutations Are More Counterproductive Than HelpfulDec. 6, 2008
From mid-November, a reminder that mutations are nearly always counterproductive.
-
Scientists Raise the Dead and Kill the LivingNov. 4, 2006
Scientists have “reversed evolution”-converting a modern enzyme into its “theoretical distant ancestor” in one case, and reactivating a supposedly five-million-year-old retrovirus in the other.
-
How We Got Red Hair (It Wasn’t By Evolution)May 3, 2006
Recent research has shown that red hair in people often results from mutations in just one gene.
-
A Feet of ImaginationMarch 17, 2006
No story related to human evolution has drawn as much press in recent times as the account of family members in Turkey who walk hunched over, using their hands as well as feet to ambulate.
-
Special Tools of LifeMay 12, 2004
Did you know that living things make their own tools? For example, they use enzymes to break down large molecules for parts (building blocks) and some for energy.
-
Magazine ArticleThe ‘Werewolf’ GeneDec. 1, 1995, pp. 51–52
The general public is bombarded with evolutionary propaganda. A good example of such was found in a recent newspaper article titled 'Scientists move closer to finding "werewolf" gene'.
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Magazine ArticleAre Mutations Helpful?June 1, 1990, pp. 51–52
Because natural selection can only choose from what is there, evolutionists must have faith that somehow mutations provide the new raw material for living things to evolve into other life forms.
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Magazine ArticleIn Brief—D.N.A. Mutation and DesignMay 1, 1984, pp. 18–19
The living cell is a marvellous, complex piece of machinery. It contains energy converters (mitochondria), production factories (golgi bodies), and the ability to repair or duplicate itself.
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