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The Origin of Life and the Universe

fective, attempts are still made to depict it as the tions to take place. "All" of these many mutations
greatest evidence for evolution by mutation in have to be beneficial to the life form or else bring
school textbooks. Jonathan Wells writes: about the appearance of something "new." A single
According to Peter Raven and George Johnson's error in this fictitious developing life form will cause
1999 textbook, Biology, "all evolution begins with the entire system to go wrong and collapse. Ni-
alterations in the genetic message… Genetic nety-nine percent of mutations are harmful while
change through mutation and recombination [the only one percent are neutral. It flies in the face of
re-arrangement of existing genes] provides the both reason and science, therefore, to suggest
raw materials for evolution." The same page fea- that every single one of these mutations that would
tures a photo of a four-winged fruit fly, which is have to take place according to the theory of evo-
described as "a mutant because of changes in lution can be beneficial.
Ultrabithorax, a gene regulating a critical stage of It is therefore impossible for a brand new organ
development; it possesses two thoracic segments or characteristic that did not exist before to appear
and thus two sets of wings." by chance as the result of mutations. Mutations
Adding to the confusion, textbook accounts typically have no power to bestow new information on a life
form that does not belong to it, or to turn it into a
leave the reader with the impression that the extra
different organism. The idea of mutation represents
wings represent a gain of structures. But four-
the greatest manifestation of the falsehood and il-
winged fruit flies have actually lost structures which
logicality of Darwinism because the idea of evolution
they need for flying. Their balancers are gone, and
is based on these illusory "beneficial mutations"
instead of being replaced with something new have
that do not in fact exist.
been replaced with copies of structures already
present in another segment. Although pictures of
The Infinite Amount of Time Needed for Hypothetical
four-winged fruit flies give the impression that mu-
Beneficial Mutations
tations have added something new, the exact op-
Even if we hypothesize that beneficial mutations
posite is closer to the truth. 4
could take place, the idea of mutation is still in-
Even if we assume that the "fictitious first cell"
compatible with the theory of evolution. In a paper
that Darwinists claim represents the beginning of
titled "The Inadequacy of Neo-Darwinian Evolution
life and that cannot possibly have come into being
As a Scientific Theory," Professor Murray Eden
by chance did actually emerge spontaneously,
from the MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Techno-
even the smallest stage of the imaginary evolutionary y y y y y y logy) Faculty of Electrical
process that would have to take Engineering showed that
place to give rise to a human with if it required a mere six
his complex structure would require mutations to bring about
an astounding amount of information an adaptive change, this
to be produced and countless muta- would occur by chance
only once in a billion years
- while, if two dozen genes
were involved, it would re-
quire 10,000,000,000 ye-
ars, which is much longer
than the age of the Earth. 5
Even if we assume that
mutations were effective

and beneficial in complex

organs, and structures re-

quiring more than one mu-
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