"Sickle Cell Advantage?" from recent TX debate

Watch this 3-min installment from this semester's debate at SFA Univ in Nacogdoches TX at:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qldd8brWW-0

"Sickle Cell Advantage?"

Watch and see how this student has been mis-educated... and believes it.
Evo's teach students that the deadly mutation of a normal red blood-cell gene... is actually some kind of a "gift" to mankind, from the "bounty of evolution." It is not.
Sickle-cell Anemia is an accidental damage to the RBC gene.
People who have it are sick and can die.
They are born with this gene or are not born with it.
If they are homozygous (got it from both parents) it is practically a death sentence.
There is no new genetic information involved in Sickle-cell Anemia. It is an anemic condition resulting from the crashing of a normal gene. This has nothing to do with bacteria changing into people or any other such nonsense.
The deformed cells do make it difficult for the person to contract malaria... which is the only reason these individuals have any survival-of-the-fittest going for them... malaria-infested regions.
If destroying genes is all evolution is... then I believe (ha).
If that's all it is then... why don't all bacteria destroy all of their genes and rise up and become a superior species, more powerful than humans?
Sickle-cell as onward-and-upward evolution... is a profoundly stupid thing to teach to our college and high school science students.
As Nanny MacPhee would say, "Sad really. But there it is."
God bless. Keep thinking! Dr Jackson

You can learn more about Sickle Cell Anemia at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sickle-cell_disease