Posted: Feb 26, 2014 8:48 pm
questioner121 wrote:Rumraket wrote:
Why would the designer put a broken vitamin-C gene into individual organisms and then subsequently mutate it, particularly such that a phylogenetic inferences produces a hierarchical arrangement congruent with the one inferred from comparative anatomy?
Why is your designer trying to make it look like evolution happened, and since that is what it looks like, why do you even infer design at all?
How do you know it's broken? Have you tried fixing and seeing if it works?
It has a premature stop codon, several missing exons and the associated regulatory region doesn't work to initiate transcription. That's about as broken as protein coding gene can get.
We know it's broken, we know how broken genes look and what breaks them, it's broken, deal with it.
So, what is the purpose of a broken, neutrally drifting gene again? Why'd your designer design a broken gene and then put it into several different organisms and even mutate it further?