Mutations in Plants not random say new study.

In what looks to be a sign of intelligent design at work; a botanist finds mutations to be ‘very’ non-random?

Many in the ID community are rethinking mutation as they come to see it more and more as part and parcel of a designed or regulated process.

They will be heartened by a new open-access paper in the science journal Nature. It hones in on the characteristics of mutations in one widely-studied plant species.

The title of the paper is; Mutation bias reflects natural selection in Arabidopsis thaliana

To get some idea of the implications of the study a good place to start is a Science Daily news story; “Study challenges evolutionary theory that DNA mutations are random”

“We have always thought of mutation as basically random across the genome,” said Grey Monroe, an assistant professor in the UC Davis Department of Plant Sciences who is lead author on the paper.

“As it turns out mutation is very non-random and it’s non-random in a way that benefits the plant”

What we have is a totally new way of thinking about mutation.

This statement from Monroe is as non-Darwinian as it gets.

Whether the scientist is non Darwinian or not is beside the point; what is clear is his findings are at odds with textbook evolutionary theory.

ID biologists should also take note; many of them have adopted the principle that mutation is “random.”

They will have to shake off years of education based on a fundamentally flawed theory.

…..Or just reform it altogether; said Hamlet to the players.

A perfect example of science found wanting, yes?

Science should be based on questioning; not the acceptance of dogma. It appears too many don’t like the questions or the risk of where it will lead.