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<blockquote data-quote="cotjones" data-source="post: 7663475" data-attributes="member: 573988">First of all, Wrong. To say something is random is to say the cause is arbitrary. The cause is not bound by a desired outcome.Point mutations come mostly from DNA or RNA transcription errors. Environmental factors such as solar radiation can damage nucleotide chains, but polymerase errors occur about once per 100,000,000 bases. In a Human Zygote there are over 6,000,000,000 base pairs. Meaning that there are no less than 60 completely random mutations from this source alone. The Codons for any amino acid are made of 3 base pairs. You could easily achieve differing phenotypes exclusively by these random mutations. All living things are made of the same stuff. Jumble the stuff up and you get changes.And you miss the entire point of evolution. The point of evolution is not to adapt. It&#039;s to change Period. It is coincidence that good changes make the species more successful. But there are thousands of mechanisms of speciation.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="cotjones, post: 7663475, member: 573988"] First of all, Wrong. To say something is random is to say the cause is arbitrary. The cause is not bound by a desired outcome. Point mutations come mostly from DNA or RNA transcription errors. Environmental factors such as solar radiation can damage nucleotide chains, but polymerase errors occur about once per 100,000,000 bases. In a Human Zygote there are over 6,000,000,000 base pairs. Meaning that there are no less than 60 completely random mutations from this source alone. The Codons for any amino acid are made of 3 base pairs. You could easily achieve differing phenotypes exclusively by these random mutations. All living things are made of the same stuff. Jumble the stuff up and you get changes. And you miss the entire point of evolution. The point of evolution is not to adapt. It's to change Period. It is coincidence that good changes make the species more successful. But there are thousands of mechanisms of speciation. [/QUOTE]

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