MikeBGene:
>What observations do you have in mind? (I hope you are not confusing
>observation with inference).
this is from the much-maligned talk.origins website:
"[An] obvious increase in information can occur when a gene duplicates
and the two copies undergo independent mutations leading to two genes with
somewhat different
functions. Gene duplication, mutation and selection are all known to occur
due to natural
biochemical processes in a variety of organisms studied in the laboratory.
Many gene families are
known with members that encode proteins having related structure and
related but distinct
function. Each family can be explained by multiple gene duplications
followed by random
mutation and differentiation of the functions of the individual gene
copies. Clearly the expansion
from a single primordial gene to a large family of genes with distinct
functions represents an
increase in genetic information."
Susan
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