Reversing Genetic Entropy?
There is a problem in genetics, supposedly. According to J.C. Sanford in Genetic Entropy and the Mystery of the Genome, we have well-developed theories for how natural selection takes place, but we cannot account for the rate of entropy that occurs in genes due to mutations. If mutations occured according to entropy, we would expect a chronic degradation of the quality of all life on Earth. Now Sanford is a Young Earth Creationist, i.e., he believes the Earth is 6,000 years old; I am an evolutionist. But he has a great point: how in the world can we account for really old genetic information being preserved?
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