Mutations don’t gain information when they occur, in fact, in some cases, they lose it.

What do you mean “information”

@Sophie Oh? Why?

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

So let’s hear it