View Single Post
Old 05-04-2013, 16:57   #6
GratefulCitizen
Area Commander
 
GratefulCitizen's Avatar
 
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Page/Lake Powell, Arizona
Posts: 3,434
Quote:
Originally Posted by PRB View Post
or too put it another way...Has a mutation been observed which has added new and beneficial genetic information to the pre existing gene pool which was inherited from the parents of the mutant?
Experiments have been done on thousands of successive generations of fruit flies for over a century to test exactly that question.

The conclusion: <crickets chirping>.
__________________
__________________
Waiting for the perfect moment is a fruitless endeavor.
Make a decision, and then make it the right one through your actions.
"Whoever watches the wind will not plant; whoever looks at the clouds will not reap." -Ecclesiastes 11:4 (NIV)
GratefulCitizen is offline   Reply With Quote