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See also
See also
Book Darwin Devolves - a particularly important page on this topic
Mutation rates / molecular clock
Information, genetic, new or increased
Creationist claims
Creationist claims
Claims include:
Most mutations are harmful.
There are no beneficial mutations.
Beneficial mutations always break something.
No new information can arise.
About this page
About this page
Many of the resources on the page Book Darwin Devolves could have been included here, but for a number of reasons they have been put only on that page. They contain important information on this topic, however, and should not be missed.
Resources
Resources
Claim CB100: Mutations are rare
Claim CB101: Most mutations are harmful
Claim CB101.1: Mutations are accidents; things do not get built by accident
Claim CB101.2: Mutations do not produce new features
Claim CB102: Mutations do not add information
Claim CB102.1: Dawkins could not give an example of increasing information
Claim CB110: Microevolution selects only existing variation
Claim CB120: Genetic load from mutations would make populations unviable
Claim CB121: The cost of natural selection is prohibitive (Haldane's dilemma)
Claim CB150: Functional genetic sequences are too rare to evolve from one to another
Brief responses in the Index to Creationist Claims in the TalkOrigins Archive.
Creation Myth: NO Truly Beneficial Mutations
Video by biology professor Dan Stern Cardinale on his Creation Myths YouTube channel.
Video in the How Creationism Taught Me Real Science series.
Video by Jackson Wheat.
A Creation Museum Speaker Asks: Do Animals Evolve?
Post by biologist Joel Duff on his Naturalis Historia blog, dealing with various creationist misconceptions of evolution, including on the subject of mutations.
A Vivid Demonstration of Bacteria Adapting to Antibiotics via Mutations and Selection
Post by biologist Joel Duff on his Naturalis Historia blog.
What is a Perfect Trait? The Prelapsarian Paradise in Our Own Eyes
Post by biologist Joel Duff on his Naturalis Historia blog.
A Primer on Young-Earth Views of Speciation, Mutations and Natural Selection
Post by biologist Joel Duff on his Naturalis Historia blog.
The Evolution of Creation Science, Part 2: Beneficial Mutations
Article by Philip J. Senter and Jared J. Mackey in the journal Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith. The full issue in which this article appears is also available.
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