DNA -vs- Evolution

Creationist sees science through 'Biblical glasses'
Carli Allen
The News-Chronicle

'If evolution is true,' said Astrophysicist Jason Lisle, 'then we're descended from microbes, like an amoeba, a single-cell organism. At some point, the information in our DNA had to increase. Evolution is about the increase of information.'

Lisle said all processes in nature reduce information in DNA. He gave the example of having two dogs, one with long fur and one with short hair. The offspring of those dogs could have short fur, long fur, or medium fur.

'Now suppose there's an ice age. The dogs with the short fur will tend to be eliminated because they're not as insulated, and the dogs with the medium fur, likewise,' explained Lisle. 'The dogs best able to survive in the environment will be the dogs with the long fur.'

Before long, said Lisle, the only dogs left would have long hair and their offspring also would have long hair.
'This is a great example of survival of the fittest or natural selection. It's not evolution because have we gained information?' asked Lisle. 'Not at all. In fact, we've lost information. If there's a heat wave, are these dogs going to go back to having short hair? Not at all because they've lost the gene for short hair.'

Evolutionists, said Lisle, might question this idea pointing out that a mutation, or a copying mistake with the DNA could cause a case like this, which he said is a valid point. In this case, DNA information doesn't die off, but isn't properly copied.

"Suppose you have two dogs with the information for long legs," said Lisle, "and there's a mutation that occurs and you end up with a dog that has short legs."

This isn't a case of evolution, the doctor argued. Though there are people who breed dogs with qualities such as these, a dog like that would likely not do as well in nature.

"Mutations don't help evolution," said Lisle. "They remove information just as natural selection does. It's the opposite of evolution. Information is being reduced."

This process, he explained, also couldn't change a dog into a cat.

"A cat has different information, you can't change the information by deleting it," he said.


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