[eddie2]

You will have to refresh my memory. I thought the earth was supposed to be about 5 billion years old and that life started about one billion years ago.

Are you saying that cells mutate everytime they divide? It seems that with a mutation rate like you describe life forms would be constantly mutating into other forms in very short periods of time.

[CarolinaGuitarman]

"You will have to refresh my memory. I thought the earth was supposed to be about 5 billion years old and that life started about one billion years ago."

You DO need refreshing. The earth is about 4.5 billion years old and life is almost 4 billion years old.

"Are you saying that cells mutate everytime they divide?"

Pretty close.

[ConsentofGoverned]

"Are you saying that cells mutate everytime they divide? It seems that with a mutation rate like you describe life forms would be constantly mutating into other forms in very short periods of time."
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the biggest joke in science..mutations lead to new species ..just let one scientist force mutations on any life form and see if he gets a new species..never has happened and never will..the complex living system is beyond human understanding..DNA is information and someone for lack of a better word had the information encoded there much like a computer programmer provides the code for computers to operate..chance mutations result in death or disease not new animals.

[VadeRetro]

You will have to refresh my memory. I thought the earth was supposed to be about 5 billion years old and that life started about one billion years ago.