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

• Are mutations part of the “engine” of evolution?
• Mutations (from Creation: Facts of Life)
• Ancon sheep: just another loss mutation
• The Blind Gunman (Institute for Creation Research)
• The breath of life: God?s gift to all creatures
• 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
• How manatees lost their legs?
• Hox Hype: Has Macro-evolution Been Proven?
• Muscular cattle: a beneficial mutation?
• Mutations
• The mutant ‘feather-duster’ budgie
• One tiny flaw, and 50 years lost! (Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome)
• Protein mutational context dependence: a challenge to neo-Darwinism theory: part 1 (technical)
• Rats! Another case of sickle cell anaemia
• Sickle-cell anaemia does not prove evolution!
• Special tools of life
• 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
• Get Answers: Information Theory

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?

• 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!
• “Species” and “kind”

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

• Antibiotic Resistance of Bacteria: An Example of Evolution in Action?
• Antibiotic Resistance as “Evidence” for Evolution
• Biologists mimic evolution in the lab?
• The "bird flu" and evolution
• Bird Flu
• Darwin at the Drugstore?
• Did God make pathogenic viruses?
• "Doonesbury" needs some resistance
• Genetic Variance of Influenza Type A Avian Virus and its Evolutionary Implications
• 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)

• Get Answers: Created Kinds
• Get Answers: Natural Selection
• Get Answers: Speciation