Title:
Nylon: it isn't just for breakfast any more

Description:
Point number one you said "If you believe in evolution then you are an evolutionist." Since I do not believe in evolution, that means by your usage of the word I am not an evolutionist. However, I accept the fact that evolution occurred and occurs. What do you call a person who knows evolution is a fact, instead of believes it to be? If a person believes in gravity, do you call that person a gravityist? If a person believes in leptons, do you call that person a leptonist? What about people who believe in ablation? An ablationist? Is an incretion believer an incretionist? If you mean someone who accepts modern biology when you say "evolutionist," why don't you say "biologist?" Point number two, you said "evolution is just a believe." The answer is, "No, it is not." Point number three, you quoted Professor Richard Dawkins as stating DNA has quote "information" unquote. With several qualifications, I will tentatively accept the hypothesis that there is information in DNA. However, you did not state what you mean by the word "information" until after I queried you. You claimed that, quote, "new information equals new genes" unquote. If you meant new genes, why did you say new information? Mutations that cause new genes is observed thousands of times, often among scientists working in disease control and best control. Modern corn, for example, was created by Americans out of Zea mexicana via mutation and artificial selection. Gene sequencing of Zea mexicana and corn shows gene duplication, genetic drift, frame shifting, and other mutations that resulted in new proteins, novel sequences of amino acids, and modified enzymes. Another example is, of course, bacteria that digest nylon. See the article "Birth of a unique enzyme from an alternative reading frame of the pre-existed, internally repetitious coding sequence", Susumu Ohno, available on the net. A single nucleotide mutation created a new enzyme; that frame shifted the genome which in turn created an entire new protein. Since you claim new information equals new genes, then it was observed in this bacteria in the 1970s. Not just once, by the way, but TWICE. Downs Syndrome, of course, is another example of a mutation increasing what you call information: an entire chromosome is added to the genome. You have been told this, I see, yet you reject the example without any valid reason for doing so. Point number four, you asked about gene duplication and fusing and you asked for an example. There is a fairly good example: humanity's common ancestor with chimpanzees. We observe in the genetic record that gene fusing occurred: we can see that it happened. Point number five, you then asked for one specific example. Fine: the nylon-digesting bacteria is an excellent example of a mutation adding what you call information into its genome. That single mutation added two new enzymes in the form of a new protein. Those two new enzymes allow the bacteria to digest nylon. Point number six: you then asked what kind of mutation that one example was. The answer is, frame shifting--- a very common mutation that happens all the time in nature.

Author:
Desertphile

Tags:
darwin, DNA, evolution, information, mutation, observed, science,