Study Questions 'Cost Of Complexity' In Evolution

01 April 2008

 
 Biologists have spent loads of time and money determining something that logic should have told them if they would have listened. They have discovered that mutations within one gene usually only affect minor characteristics. It was previously assumed that one adjustment may affect many traits and cause a larger jump in evolution with only minor genetic improvement. When one genetic change affects many traits it is called pleiotropy.

 Gunter Wagner, professor and chair of ecology and evolutionary biology at Yale said, "You wouldn't expect to make a lot of random adjustments -- at the same time -- to tune up a car, Similarly, it appears that tuning up a complex trait in a living organism is well coordinated and the effects of pleiotropy are more focused than we thought."

 I couldn't have come up with a better example myself. How could a car (an obviously complex machine) have occurred by its self? By adding energy how long will it take to make that car into something better when unattended over long periods of time? If it is obserd for a car to mutate into a plane then how much more obserd is it for a mouse to evolve into a monkey? How many billions of benificial mutations would need to occur for this to happen?

 Creation proves there is a creator. Complexity makes it so that you are without excuse.

Romans 1:20
For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/03/080331172503.htm