Directed Mutation: The Most Controversial Topic of Evolutionary Theory

My response to Gregg Braden’s half-brilliant / half-nonsense video

I wrote the comment below on the video, because I have so much respect for Gregg Braden. In this video, he brought to light some important scientific information that has a direct bearing on the human story — in his inimical, enviable style. But then he went, well, nuts…

Here’s the YouTube video:

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Directed Mutation: The Most Controversial Topic of Evolutionary Theory,
by Gregg Braden (YouTube)

Here is my comment:

Dude. You started off SO well:

1. You began with an informative and enlightening synopsis of n important scientific study, with a great animation to help visualize it.

2. That study says that THE GENE THAT MAKES US A HUMAN is a combination of two other genes, with large amounts of duplicate material removed (otherwise the gene wouldn’t work), and that NO KNOWN NATURAL PROCESS could possibly have produced that genetic sequence.

3. You then introduced the concept of DIRECTED MUTATION, placing it directly between…