Re: Darwin and DNA
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1. All ‘evolved’ properties of past, present and future species exist a priori in DNA, in a non-activated (intron) form. What appears to be mutation is in fact the activation of a priori potential, coded in DNA. Speech in humans, for example. It was always there. It is also in mice, rats and dogs in an inactive ("intronic") state.
2. DNA components in an inactive state can and will conditionally respond to environmental factors. Environmental factors can activate genes existing a priori in a non-activated state. This can lead to what we currently call "evolved" features and even some all-new species. In all cases the potential for all polymorphism in living creatures lies dormant, pre-coded in their DNA until environmental factors activate it.
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This is an argument presented by creationists who agree that evolution takes place but say it can happen only within constraints set by God at the time of creation. Ie no evolution can lead to organisms not already potentiated explicitly by the initial creation. This argument is part of the Jehovah's Witnesses portfolio of arguments, for example.
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