This re-instated what passes for faith in humanity

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Eat (moderated) - youre trash for calling me a troll when in a serious discussion you are shown to be talking out of your butt.
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Ghost, this may be a mistake, as I was never entirely keen on biology, but... Since it is the holidays, I will give it a shot.

The study, which I still can't remember what it was called, proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that mutations were the downfall of a species.

Mutations happen when part of the DNA blueprint is lost and a crapshoot happens to fill in the blanks. The mutation iit self is an alteration in the sequence of nucleotides that comprise DNA. The instructions on how to make a protein that is encoded in the mutated DNA are changed. In short, what this study showed, is that you can not make something from nothing. Mutations are a LOSS of DNA. De-evolution. With a loss of building block material, you can only go backwards. To create new adaptations, you need to add material, not take it away.

Most mutations are harmless in the first few generations, but as the DNA strands start breaking down, sooner of later the instructions to make certain proteins start running in to vital functions in the body like enzymes or hormones. (In fact there are some folk out there that believe that each species may have something in it's instructions to self destruct somewhere along the line)

In the study they pointed out that once a DNA strand is broken, they can be repaired, restored, I am not sure of the right word I want here is. But it is important to note that when these repairs are made, and something good fills in the blanks, it is not considered a mutation. A mutation is a defect, while something good happening is something else entirely. When you gain something, it evolves, but it is not a mutation.

I hope I did a somewhat reasosnable job of trying to explain this.