Paul's question list (ie Walt Brown's question list)

[Split Rock]

Every cell contains information about the organism it’s a part of. Enough to reproduce the entire organism from one DNA strand. This information is the equivalent of libraries of books. We know that information that is organized enough to produce or reproduce life has to be extremely accurate, extremely repeatable, and not able to create or pass on errors in duplication process.



There’s an article at http://www.trueorigin.org/schneider.asp



Now there’s room for you to give an intelligent answer here!



That you may find interesting. The thrust of this is that there is a reducing amount of information available as a cell mutates – in fact this is the reason that cells appear to mutate towards anti-biotics – they have simply lost a piece of information that the antibiotic used to kill the cell. This is of course in keeping with the law of entropy. There is no counteracting law of increasing (accumulating) amounts of information, nor is there any evidence that it could ever occur. Random mutations are about as likely to improve a life form as randomly changing wires in your TV is to improve reception.

This is completely wrong. Information does not decrease when the DNA in a cell mutates!! We know that genes can be duplicated in nature and we know that mutations change genes. There are large families of genes (like pectinesterase in plant, fungi and bacteria) that differ only slightly from each other and code for similar enzymes that differ in their regulation. If a duplicated gene changes and codes for a protein that is different, how is that a decrease in information?? Please see post #26 at: http://www.christianforums.com/t1368424-natural-selection-and-genetics.html&page=3 for more information on this, as well as the evolution of antifreeze glycoprotein from typsinogen in fish.

Also, what you wrote about antibiotic resistance is completely wrong! One of the earliest types of resistance studied was to penicillin; and that involved an enzyme that cleaved the penicillin molecule so it could not function (penicillinase). How is this a "loss of information??"

By the way, there is NO "Law of Entropy."

I also believe in leprechauns and a gold pot by rainbows. Leprechauns are easy fare after evolution…

Would you be more comfortable with evolution if it included a talking snake?

 

[Arikay]

I will get to that later, although I wanted to point out that I said I would write more about whale evolution, thus here it is,
http://www.christianforums.com/t1473381-whale-evolution-a-tail-of-a-wail.html