Message from @Yusa
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Evolution does not require any particular theory about the origin of life.
Mutations don’t gain information when they occur, in fact, in some cases, they lose it.
What do you mean “information”
It’s just not salient to the theory
They don’t gain genetic information, they just adapt
They change genetic information
They don’t “gain” or “lose”
Every human has about 100 new mutations per generation
Exactly
Exactly what
Just a minute, I’m grabbing and compiling information
Lol don’t give me some essay you’ve prepared
Just talk to me like a human being
You said exactly, what did you mean?
Since you don’t want to argue the origins of life, I need to refresh my memory
No essay, just a second
Ok, I’m at work but tag me with your reply and I’ll respond when I have a chance k?
@Sophie mutations are a result of mechanical damage that interferes with all molecular machinery. Life’s error correction, avoidance and repair mechanisms themselves suffer the same damage and decay. The consequence is that all multicellular life on earth is undergoing inexorable genome decay.
Surely that’s not what you want with evolution.
**Mutations are the fundamental cause of aging** (Kudlow, B.A., Kennedy, B.K. and Monnat, R.J. Jr, Werner and Hutchinson–Gilford progeria syndromes: mechanistic basis of human progeroid diseases, Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology 8:394–404, 2007.)
**they are also the fundamental cause of cancer** (Eccleston, A. and Dhand, R., Signaling in cancer, Nature 441(7092):423, 2006)
So, first of all
That’s a mechanism of aging, it’s not the only one
**And infectious diseases** Casanova, J-L. and Abel, L., Human genetics of infectious diseases: a unified theory, The EMBO Journal 26:915–922, 2007
But yes what you’re saying is generally true
Selective pressure keeps it in line
There are a lot of sexual selection adaptations that are acted on by that pressure
Ah yes, selective pressure.
Of course you bring that up
...yes
Let’s hear it, what’s your argument against selective pressure
Sure, just a minute
I’m grabbing citations
You don’t need citations
Just talk to me like a normal person
I agreed with everything you said earlier, you didn’t need any of those citations
Wait wait wait, no citations?
If I challenge something then go ahead and provide a citation
This is going to be easier then I though
You don’t need to back up information that we both agree is true