Contender's Edge (@ContendersEdge)

@[email protected] @CynicalBroadcast I am simply examining the term "insertion mutation" from a standpoint of reason and whether or not DNA is self-replicating is not the issue of debate, but whether or not new information that was not previously present within the genetic blue print can arise and how that would even be possible. And the hypothetical DNA sequence you mentioned in the event of an insertion mutation does not really demonstrate additional information but rather the duplication of information already present. If what you are describing as insertion mutations were really adding new information to the sequence AATCCGCTAG, instead of the resulting sequence being AATCCGCTATG, we should see something like AATCCGCTATFBDG. We should be able to see information arising within the genetic blue print enabling a hand or a fore-foot to turn into a wing or a flipper to become a foot or a hand, but we do not really see anything like that; certainly not in nature.