@Irish_Farmer

This is one link on how bacterial mutation is beneficial for its own self.
http://www.gate.net/~rwms/EvoMutations.html

The flu virus is another example. That's why the government is scared of bird flu. Right now, it's a minor disease, but if it mutates, then it's a danger.

I know there are million links that say different. I went through and read them. Not all of them mind you, but enough to make up my own mind again, since the last time I studied it 10 years ago, in school and on my own.

Higher organisms are tougher to detect, because of the high cycles needed to detect a beneficial mutation. Our life span is a problem, because its short. We can't see six hundred to a thousand generations of any complex creature. Its a shame cause I wouldn't mind living a couple of thousand years to watch the change.