Get Answers: Mutations

What exactly are mutations? Are they ever beneficial? Can any genetic information be gained from mutations?

• Mutations (from Creation: Facts of Life)
• A-l Milano mutation—evidence for evolution?
• Ancon sheep: just another loss mutation
• Beetle Bloopers (defects can be an advantage sometimes) (available in Spanish)
• The Blind Gunman (Institute for Creation Research)
• The breath of life: God’s gift to all creatures
• Cat with four ears
• The Dodo Bird — An Example of Survival of the Fittest
• Elephants losing tusks
• An eye for creation
• Eyeless fish in caves
• From Ferrari to Model T: Is Reverse Evolution Possible?
• Genetics: no friend of evolution
• Has evolution really been observed?
• How manatees lost their legs?
• Hox Hype: Has Macro-evolution Been Proven?
• Muscular cattle: a beneficial mutation?
• Mutations
• Mutations—part of evolution’s engine?
• The mutant ‘feather-duster’ budgie
• New eyes for blind cave fish?
• One tiny flaw, and 50 years lost! (Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome)
• New plant colours—is this new information? (AiG scientist answers a skeptic)
• Protein mutational context dependence: a challenge to neo-Darwinism theory: part 1 (PDF, technical)
• Rats! Another case of sickle cell anaemia
• Sickle-cell anaemia does not prove evolution!
• Special tools of life
• The superbaby mutation: Evolution of a new master race?
• To Make a Tail for a Whale
• Totally naked rooster
• Two heads are better than one?
• A scientific critique of evolution [mutations and information]
  ((Technical) Dr Lee Spetner refutes Dr Edward Max; on True Origins website: Part 1 & Part 2)
• ‘Werewolf’ gene
• See also Information Theory Q&A

Why is there so much design variation in certain animals, an example being all the different breeds of dogs? Did God create these different varieties, or did they come about through genetic change?

• Bears across the world! (available in Spanish)
• Did God create poodles?
• "Evolution" of Finch Beaks—Again
• Frogs—Jeremiah was not a bullfrog
• Is Your Dog Some Kind of Degenerate Mutant?
• National Geographic "woof" worse than its bite!
• Resurrecting a "prehistoric" horse
• "Species" and "kind"

Is evolution proven by HIV resistance to antivirals, bacterial resistance to antibiotics and insect resistance to pesticides?

• Anthrax and antibiotics: Is evolution relevant? (available in Spanish)
• Biologists mimic evolution in the lab?
• The "bird flu" and evolution
• Bird Flu: Has is Evolved?
• Did God make pathogenic viruses?
• "Doonesbury" needs some resistance
• Genetic Variance of Influenza Type A Avian Virus and its Evolutionary Implications
• Has AIDS evolved?
• How Do Animals Become Resistant To Poison?
• Evolution and medicine
• Pandemic Panic?

What does the mutation rate have to do with the “age of life”?

• How Old Is Life? (ICR Back to Genesis article)

• Created Kinds Q&A
• Natural Selection Q&A
• Speciation Q&A