Genetics and Evolution
By Cameron V.
   Deoxyribonucleic acid (usually abbreviated as DNA) is found in the nucleus of a cell and contains hereditary genetic information. For instance, if you have brown eyes, you may have them because one of your parents or your grandparents had brown eyes specified in their DNA's information. DNA is very complicated. The information stored in a bacterium's DNA could fill a thousand page book. (1)
   Somehow, for evolution to work, the DNA must not only pass down generations of DNA information in an organism, it must also create its own information, or get it somehow to change the species. Some evolutionists suggest mutation, a mistake in the genetic code, as that alteration. However, mutation is just that; an alteration, not an addition. Most of the time mutations destroy information, not add it. So is there another explanation for how DNA can add its own information? Well, perhaps. Bacteria can add to their genetic information using three methods: conjugation, transformation, and transduction.
   Conjugation is when a bacterium passes a certain gene to a bacterium that does not have that gene. Transformation is when a bacterium absorbs a gene it does not have from a dead bacterium. Transduction is when a virus infects a population of bacterium and bacterium pass information around to one another because of the virus. None of these are formidable evidence for evolution, because the genes added already existed in another bacterium. (2, p 290)

1. Where Does the Information in Cells Come From? <http://creationism.org/heinze/SciEvidGodLife.htm#02bWhereDidInfoCells>
2. Dr. Jay Wile and Marilyn F. Durnell. Exploring Creation with Biology Second Edition.