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To: allmendream
"How do you suppose I believe that mutations occur only when an opportunity for survival presents itself? They usually only PERSIST within a population (and perhaps rise to 100% presence in the population) when it confers some survival advantage."

The only way your argument that nylon-digesting bacteria are not DEVOLVING is if the bacteria created new information in response to a new environment.

If the bacteria is generating this information within the constraints of it's genome when it is stressed and did so in the past, then the evidence is merely adaptation, devolution is still valid and there is no support for evolution.

I don't think you think through the basics of your positions before you post them. You end up on both sides all the time.

"I believe in both abiotic processes AND God. What is to prevent God from using abiotic processes when HE commanded the Oceans to bring forth life?"

This is simply the fallacy of equivocation. You claim to believe in a god of creation, yet your god cannot communicate how he did things. He needs man to do that and man's interpretation does not need god. That is no god at all.

482 posted on 08/15/2008 2:23:59 PM PDT by GourmetDan (Eccl 10:2 - The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left.)
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To: GourmetDan

The bacteria created a new protein out of an old gene and now could digest nylon; thus new information was created. The information necessary to digest nylon was created. This was not Devolution, it was evolution, and a gain of information, the exact thing that the poster said was impossible.


486 posted on 08/15/2008 2:30:46 PM PDT by allmendream (If "the New Yorker" makes a joke, and liberals don't get it, is it still funny?)
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