Re: Atheist Wakes Up In Morgue - After Meeting God

On 2026-08-23 08:23, Skeeter wrote:
> In article <[email protected]>, [email protected] says...
>>
>> On 2026-08-22 14:20, Skeeter wrote:
>>> In article <[email protected]>, [email protected] says...
>>>>
>>>> On 2026-08-22 06:41, Andrew wrote:
>>>>> "Samuel Spade" wrote in message
>>>>> news:[email protected]...
>>>>>
>>>>>> As time goes on genomes are functionally refined, not degraded.
>>>>>
>>>>> That is true,in your fantasy. But in the real world mutations are
>>>>> continuously going on
>>>>> in the genome also .
>>>>
>>>> And?
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Mutations are word-processing errors in the cell's instruction manual.
>>>>> They systematically destroy genetic information
>>>>
>>>> Nope. That's completely false.
>>>
>>> Prove it.
>>
>> Isn't your rule that you have to prove me wrong?
> 
> Just admit you can't.

Mutations can produced both positive and negative results.

Just like a typo on a cheque can result in someone either getting less 
OR more than was intended.

>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Selection may slow mutational degeneration, but not stop it.
>>>>> So even with selection, evolution is going the wrong way. It is going
>>>>> toward *extinction,* rather than towards a higher taxonomic level.
>>>>> Thus telling us that the word devolution better defines what is going
>>>>> on, rather than evolution.
>>>>> I hope this helps.
>>>> Mutations can be detrimental OR beneficial.
>>>>
>>>> The ones that are detrimental result in that organism competing less
>>>> successfully, while the ones that are beneficial result in an organism
>>>> that is MORE successful.
>>>
>>> Successful at what? Cancer is a mutation.
>> That's an unsuccessful mutation.
> 
> So where did the Cancer come from?
A mutation. An error in a cell which removed the restraints on its rate 
of replication. And "cancer" doesn't get a capital letter.