Mutations, bad not good (Introduction)

by Balance_Maintained , U.S.A., Wednesday, July 13, 2011, 01:29 (4883 days ago) @ dhw

Both you and DragonsHeart argued that mutations were not beneficial. There is general consensus among scientists that humans were late arrivals on the scene. I don't know if you accept this or not. I do. The similarities which I listed suggest to me that we may well share common ancestry with earlier mammals. The similarities do not provide proof, but even if I were a theist, I would regard it as far more likely that a creator would produce variations and innovations using his existing creatures (evolution) rather than starting from scratch with each separate species. In other words, a creator would continually be making changes to existing species in order to produce new ones, and these changes can be called beneficial mutations. 
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> Although this is speculation on my part, it is an attempt to understand how a creator MIGHT have worked. Not knowing should not, in my view, be a reason for not trying to understand, and dismissing the concept of beneficial mutations (which is so crucial to evolutionary theory and is not incompatible with theism) seems to me just as blinkered as dismissing the concept of an intelligence responsible for producing the complexities of life.-And in this you miss the entire point of my argument. I am not saying that we should not attempt to understand, but rather that we should approach such understanding with an empty mind, free from pre-conceived notions that have little if any foundation in reality and observed phenomena.