Mutation Consternation...

It seems that as with all things scientific, the more we learn, the less we know.  Or, the more we understand byt study, the more complicated the matter gets... ...or perhaps I should stop trying to reduce the concept before I say anything meaningful...

Apparently, we are devolving rather quickly - something that many Creationists have said for many years simply based on the things found in the Bible - now according to new genetic studies.

Here is the concluding portion of today's ICR news:

The vast majority of these 60 to 200 new mutations are irrevocably added every generation, causing what Sanford called "backwards evolution." Using such mutation rates, Sanford modeled the maximum number of generations and length of time that humans could exist before they become extinct due to mutation overload.4 Since there is no natural process that repairs these kinds of mutations faster than they accumulate, they continuously amass until organisms eventually can no longer tolerate the high level of genetic error.5


Like so many other natural clock processes, by confirming a mutation rate of at least 60 per generation, this Nature Genetics study confirms that the "backwards evolution" in humans limits the entire history of mankind to only thousands, not millions, of years.