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things, do not develop them, and can never endow
them with any new functional features (such as wings
or lungs, for instance). Mutations either kill or deform
the afflicted organism. To claim that mutations im-
prove a species and endow it with new advantages is
like claiming that an earthquake can make a city more
advanced and modern, or that striking a computer
with a hammer will result in a more advanced model.
Indeed, no mutation has ever been observed to in-
crease—much less improve—genetic information.

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The erroneous theory known as “spontaneous genera-
tion,” which had been around since at least the Middle
Ages, maintained that inanimate substances could by
chance assamble to produce a living being. The idea
that insects formed from food wastes or mice from
wheat was widespread up, until the 18th century. Even
in the 19th century, when Darwin wrote his book The
Origin of Species, the scientific world still widely be-
lieved that bacteria could arise from inanimate matter.
In fact, however, only five years after Darwin pub-
lished his book, Louis Pasteur announced his results
after long studies and experiments, that disproved
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