Jubal

Ok, a bit late here, but...

A major creationist argument is that most mutations are likely to be harmful to a given species or, at best, neutral. I read somewhere that genetic diversity suddenly took a dramatic decline sometime during the precambrian. My little hypothesis is that a lack of a sophisticated sorting device may have been the cause of that diversity and, somewhere along the line, it became advantageous to have a (better) control of how a given mutation would be handled (ie, largely ignored) and/or a place to store information which may later become useful, as in the case of a malign alteration which may be turned to something useful (or at least not as harmful) if a largely unused part of the genome were to come into play. I suspect that early lifeforms bred in large enough numbers that no matter how faulty their genome might have been there would be some survivors.

Of course, it may all be bunk, I don't know nearly as much about this stuff as I'd like.


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