Duplicate genes

Do evolutionists admit defeat?  Never!  They temporarily sidestep natural selection, saying the mutations in DNA needed to build a complicated new part quietly accumulate in duplicate genes, because by themselves each of the necessary mutations is neutral, neither beneficial nor harmful.  Then, millions of years later, all are in place.  The new part starts working, natural selection chooses it, and the improved creature is off to the races.  This scenario exists only in the mind of the evolutionist.

It is true that just one copy of a gene needs to work right.  There are many duplicate genes in DNA, and the idea is that they are free to change without hurting the creature.  A review of many experiments with duplicate genes found that "duplication can and does facilitate important adaptations by tinkering with existing compounds".  The "random mutations and recombinations considered were observed to tweak, tinker, copy, cut, divide, and shuffle existing genetic information around, but fell short of generating genuinely distinct and entirely novel functionality."  "Gene duplication results in the copying and preservation of biological information, and not its transformation as something original."  It is "insufficient in explaining the origination of the highly complex information pertinent to the essential functioning of living organisms." --Bozorgmehr, Joseph Esfandiar Hannon. 22 December 2010. Is Gene Duplication a Viable Explanation for the Origination of Biological Information and Complexity? Complexity, published online, DOI 10.1002/cplx.20365, pp. 1-14.