Mutations Questions and Answers

What exactly are mutations? Are they ever beneficial? Can any genetic information be gained from mutations?

• Ancon sheep: just another loss mutation
• Argument: Some mutations are beneficial (from Refuting Evolution 2)
• At Last, A Good Mutation?
• Bacteria ‘evolving in the lab’? (Refutation of Lenski’s evolutionary hype on citrate-digesting E. coli)
• Beetle bloopers (defects can be an advantage sometimes)
• CCR5—delta32: a very beneficial mutation
• The Blind Gunman (Institute for Creation Research)
• Cat with four ears
• The dodo bird — An example of Survival of the Fittest
• The mutant ‘feather-duster’ budgie
• Hox (homeobox) Genes — Evolution’s Saviour? (Semi-technical)
• Lost World of mutants discovered
• Muscular cattle: a beneficial mutation?
• Elephants losing tusks
• New eyes for blind cave fish?
• Let the blind see …
• To make a tail for a whale
• Two heads are better than one?
• New plant colours—is this new information? (CMI scientist answers a skeptic)
• Can’t drink milk? You’re “normal”!
• A-l Milano mutation—evidence for evolution?
• Rats! Another case of sickle cell anaemia
• Sickle-cell anaemia does not prove evolution!
• Special tools of life
• The superbaby mutation: Evolution of a new master race?
• Gain-of-function mutations: at a loss to explain molecules-to-man evolution (semi-technical)
• Are ‘gain of function’ mutations really downhill and so not supporting of evolution?
• Protein mutational context dependence: a challenge to neo-Darwinism theory: part 1 (PDF, technical)
• A scientific critique of evolution [mutations and information]
  ((Technical) Dr Lee Spetner refutes Dr Edward Max; on True Origins website: Part 1 & Part 2)
• ‘Werewolf’ gene
• ‘Evolution in a Petrie dish’?
• Breathtaking new frog surprise

Why is there so much design variation in certain animals, an example being all the different breeds of dogs? Did God create these different varieties, or did they come about through genetic change?

• Bears across the world!
• Did God create poodles?
• Is your dog some kind of degenerate mutant?

Is evolution proven by HIV resistance to antivirals, bacterial resistance to antibiotics and insect resistance to pesticides?

• Anthrax and antibiotics: Is evolution relevant? (Semi-technical; available in Spanish)
• Has AIDS evolved?
• How Do Animals Become Resistant To Poison
• Superbugs: Not super after all!
• Worm evolution in pollution?
• Patterns of change over time: organophosphorus resistance in the Australian sheep blowfly, Lucilia cuprina

See also Q&A: Natural Selection