Dehler, Bernie wrote:
>
> Randy said:
> “A process such as gene duplication, for example, increases the amount
> of information in an organism without any external source.”
>
> But gene duplication by itself is not adding useful information or
> resulting in any beneficial improvements.
>
Don adds: Strictly speaking, Bernie is correct. But mutation inevitably
accompanies gene duplication. I once had the opportunity to demonstrate
this to Werner Gitt. I took two copies of his book 'In the Beginning was
Information', placed them side by side, and said "No new information."
Then I turned one of them upside down, and said "New information".
Don
To unsubscribe, send a message to majordomo@calvin.edu with
"unsubscribe asa" (no quotes) as the body of the message.
Received on Fri Apr 24 18:01:05 2009
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.8 : Fri Apr 24 2009 - 18:01:05 EDT