Re: Comments on Spetner

Tim Ikeda (tikeda@sprintmail.com)
Sun, 27 Sep 1998 13:38:13 -0400

Joseph Mastropaolo writes:
[...]
>Spetner observes that every mutation finding a temporary environmental
>niche nonetheless loses information and has taken a step toward
>extinction. Evolution can't provide new information. New information
>can't come from a random process. New information requires an engineer.

Ok. Let's assume you are just such an engineer. Is there any sort
of _single-step_ point mutation, gene duplication, inversion, frame-
shift or subunit exchange that you could _engineer_ into a genome that
increases the information content of the cell? What _single_ changes
in an enzyme could you make that would increase its information
content?

Regards,
Tim Ikeda
tikeda@sprintmail.hormel.com (despam address before use)