http://www.scientificamerican.com/artic ... scientists
http://www.scientificamerican.com/artic ... sts&page=2
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/338/6105/384.abstract
Science deliberately mangled by Answers in Genesis:
http://www.answersingenesis.org/article ... e-11032012 (item 4)
"Despite implicit faith that “gene duplications allow evolution of genes with new functions,” no one has actually shown how that could happen."
"Since mutations actually don’t add any new information..."
"The main problem with using this discovery to support evolutionary theory is that no new function actually came into existence. The dual-function gene already existed in the organism. The genetic information was not new; it was already there."
"These bacteria did not evolve an innovation. They did not acquire new genetic information, as duplication of an existing gene is nothing new."
But as reported in the Abstract of the scientific paper: "Gene duplications allow evolution of genes with new functions. Here, we describe the innovation-amplification-divergence (IAD) model in which the new function appears before duplication and functionally distinct new genes evolve under continuous selection".
If this does not also support the idea of bacteria evolving into something more complex, why do YECs pretend it isn't happening ie there is 'no' new function?
As in other similar cases, the duplication meant that two functions were being carried out instead of just one.
"Cornell University evolutionary geneticist Richard Meisel cautions that this evolutionary mechanism may be limited to bacteria and viruses, which brings up another rather obvious point: nothing about this discovery provides a mechanism for Salmonella to become any new kind of more complex organism, only another variety of Salmonella." That does not necessarily follow. http://www.sciencemag.org/content/338/6105/316 (cited by AiG)
AiG wants their fans to think that scientists are STUPID.