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The statement ''The scientific data regarding mutations causing the significant changes necessary for macroevolution is extremely damaging to the macroevolutionary position'' is completely false. PAX6 is a wonderful example of a gene found across species that encodes for sensory organs. Slight mutations of this gene account for the diversity of optical organs found at the phyla levels.--[[User:Tims|TimS]] 10:44, 19 March 2007 (EDT)
The statement ''The scientific data regarding mutations causing the significant changes necessary for macroevolution is extremely damaging to the macroevolutionary position'' is completely false. PAX6 is a wonderful example of a gene found across species that encodes for sensory organs. Slight mutations of this gene account for the diversity of optical organs found at the phyla levels.--[[User:Tims|TimS]] 10:44, 19 March 2007 (EDT)
:Actually the diversity is mostly to do with the ''targets'' of Pax6, rather than changes in the gene itself, but that's not really important. In fact I would say that the article is confusion macro''mutation'' with macroevolution. Persumably creationists believe the theory of evolution predicts that annelids turned into vertebrates, which is really what that sentence would disprove. It just goes to show that the entire thing was written by someone with absolutely no basing in biology. [[User:Nematocyte|Nematocyte]] 10:52, 19 March 2007 (EDT)