right on iona;though i understand that some mutations can be beneficial in some circumstances but involve loss of information.eg fish in hudson river adapting to polluted water-but would not survive in clean water.as i understand it mutations exhibit no information gain that is required for goo to you evolution.

as to the fossil record or evolutionism generally ;some of it's own academics have confessed the absense of evidence.call it quote mining if you like but i call it honesty.
pete.