[__ Science __ ] Evolution? Don't Hold Your Breath

[AIG.com]

A team of researchers in Israel decided to take a look at Henneguya salminicola to determine how it could survive in low-oxygen salmon muscle tissue.

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[Barbarian]

Most notable error here:

"But once again, we see the bait-and-switch tactic of equating adaptation, mutation, and natural selection with molecules-to-man evolution. If this parasite is losing genetic information and can only survive by presumably siphoning energy from its host, then this is not evolution, but a created kind which, in a fallen world, has adapted to parasitic life. "

Evolution is "descent with modification" (Darwin's term) or "change in allele frequency in a population over time." So yes, this is evolution.

Sometimes, evolution causes an increase in the number of genes, as in many insects. Sometimes, it causes a reduction as in humans. Still evolution. It can cause the loss of function, such as the tail in humans, and sometimes it causes a new function, such as the new digestive organ that evolved in some lizards that founded a population on a new and different island.

Still evolution. The writer here is confusing agencies of evolution (like natural selection) and consequences of evolution (like common descent) with evolution itself (change in allele frequencies in a population over time.