It's magical misdirection in word form. I'm still disappointed tho

Say we take a phone book, and we find an entry: "John Doe, 123-4567". If a printing error (mutation) happened in the phone book, adding the letter 'a', it might become "Johan Doe, 123-4567". Now when someone tries to look up John Doe, they can't find his number! We lost the information stored in the arrangement of letters, because we added a single letter. The mutation did not add information, it mangled it. But what if instead a new mutation added a new entry: "Michael Jackson, 987-6543". Now when someone tries to call this number, the call does not reach anyone. That mutation wasn't useful or advantageous to the phone book, even though it was what appeared to be new information.

Darn socce-uh water polio players

"I can't fall asleep"

Copying pre-existing information to form a bigger gene sequence is still not producing new information.
As for beneficial mutations, take the peppered moth. It used to be light gray, blending in with the light trees. Black moths were rare because they stood out and were eaten. It was beneficial for moths to be gray. Then the industrial revolution happened and suddenly the black moths had better camouflage with all the soot. The gray ones stood out and were eaten much more frequently than the black moths, leading to a large stunt in the population of peppered moths. Black ones had the beneficial trait of being black, so they flourished, even though the information existed before the industrial revolution. Only the percentage of black moths in the population changed, causing the perceived evolution due to natural selection. (Oh, I guess this is to do with traits and not mutations, whoops)

The eons of mutations would probably form a seemingly new creature, but no process has been observed where new information can be added to the genetics of any creature. New species may not be able to breed, but this is due to deformation and loss of information, which is not helpful to the story of common ancenstry which requires onwards-and-upwards evolution. Also, beneficial mutation does not equal increase in information.

Epic peacock

un-NOTE-iced!

I missed you

Having a pet platypus would help too, especially if they are part of a secret organization that fights villians.