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Mutations Questions and Answers

Key Articles

• Can mutations create new information?
• Argument: Some mutations are beneficial (from Refuting Evolution 2)
• Beetle bloopers (defects can be an advantage sometimes)
• The evolution train’s a-comin’ (Sorry, a-goin’—in the wrong direction)
• Responses to our 15 Questions: part 1
• Responses to our 15 Questions: part 2
• Responses to our 15 Questions: part 3

Are mutations ever beneficial?

• The mutant ‘feather-duster’ budgie
• CCR5—delta32: a very beneficial mutation
• Lost World of mutants discovered
• New eyes for blind cave fish?
• Christopher Hitchens—blind to salamander reality
• Can’t drink milk? You re “normal”!
• At Last, A Good Mutation?
• A-l Milano mutation—evidence for evolution?
• Special tools of life

Can mutation be the mechanism for evolution?

• Hox (homeobox) Genes—Evolution’s Saviour?
• Gain-of-function mutations: at a loss to explain molecules-to-man evolution
• Are ‘gain of function’ mutations really downhill and so not supporting of evolution?
• Protein mutational context dependence: a challenge to neo-Darwinism theory

Can any genetic information be gained from mutations?

• Ancon sheep: just another loss mutation
• Bacteria ‘evolving in the lab’? (Refutation of Lenski’s evolutionary hype on citrate-digesting E. coli)
• Cat with four ears
• New plant colours—is this new information?
• Sickle-cell anemia does not prove evolution!
• The superbaby mutation: Evolution of a new master race?
• ‘Werewolf’ gene
• ‘Evolution in a Petrie dish’?
• Breathtaking new frog surprise

Related Q&A pages

• Natural Selection
• Genetics
• Design Features
• Speciation

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