An Origins poll

[gluadys]

eye alleles will always be eye's. they cannot change into wings.

Right.

if that is so then amoebas will always amoebas.

Right.

therefore the world as we see it cannot possibly have spawned from evolution's mechanism. therefore evolution is bung.

Wrong.

that fits perfectly with God's Word in Genesis.
"in the beginning God created animals according to their kinds... and it was good"

what is human will always be human, what is fish, will always be fish.

Right.

and also* in that context, 'new alleles' is non-sensical (but also in the secular sense it is stupid, no one uses those two words together) - there is zero evidence of genetic information increasing... anywhere.

./me out.

Every existing allele was once a new mutation. New mutations are the source of additional alleles.

Existing alleles<-old mutations
New mutations->new alleles.

Actually, the mutation is not the allele per se, but a change in the allele. However, since there are multiple copies of the existing allele in the population, and the mutation affects only one of them, the changed allele is "new" in respect to the unchanged ones. Both the existing and the mutated alleles will be reproduced and if the mutated allele confers a benefit to the organisms which possess it, it will displace the non-mutated alleles over several generations. This is a change in the frequency of alleles and is the basis of evolution. In fact, it is the definition of evolution.

 

[Dark Matter]

re: Dark Matter - what the heck are you on about?

Why, truth, justice and the American way, of course! ... or is that superman??

DM