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known biologist D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson, “... we are entitled ... to see in natural selection an inexorable
force, whose function is not to create but to destroy—to weed, to prune, to cut down and to cast into the fire.” 10
Darwinists are therefore lying when they describe natural selection as an evolutionary mechanism.
Even though they know full well that natural selection does not bring about evolution, they still try to

openly impose this deception. Desiring to adopt the legacy inherited from Darwin, and not having been
able to invent a new mechanism for their imaginary scenario, makes them intensely devoted to this out-
dated claim and terrible falsehood. There are still Darwinist scientists today who adhere to this terrible
lie. Those who have seen that this lie cannot be maintained have come up with another lie: the idea that

“mutations cause evolution.”

3. The idea that “mutations cause evolution” is a falsehood

Mutations are dislocations, breaks and impairments as a result of radiation or chemical effects in the
DNA molecule in the nucleus of the living cell which carries all the information about a human being.
The information in DNA is set out by 4 separate nucleotides, symbolized by the letters A, T, C and G, laid
out in a special and significant sequence. But an error in a single letter in that sequence will damage the

entire structure. For example, the leukemia observed in children appears because one of the nucleotide
sequences in the DNA is incorrect. The reason for diseases such as cancer appearing or subsequent gen-
erations being deformed as a result of the radiation leakage at Chernobyl, or the atom bomb dropped

over Hiroshima, is again because of the harmful effects of mutations occurring in people’s bodies.
Almost all mutations are harmful, and they are generally lethal to living things. Examples of muta-
tions that are not harmful generally do the organism no good, and are at best neutral. Scientists have
concluded that not a single mutation, out of all those that have been studied, has ever had a positive ef-
fect on the life of an organism. 11

But the theory of evolution is based on these fictitious mutations that supposedly produce “new” liv-
ing things and work miracles. Darwinists maintain that species emerge from one another through struc-
tures and organs appearing as a result of countless fictitious and beneficial mutations. This claim, which

is a source of terrible shame for Darwinists, is put forward by Darwinist scientists who know that muta-
tions always harm an organism. Furthermore, Darwinists are well aware of these harmful effects of muta-
tions yet they still point to a mutant, four-winged fruit fly. The four-winged fruit fly emerged as a result
of being subjected to radiation in the laboratory. Darwinists use this example in support of their claims.
Darwinists portrayed the extra pair of wings produced in a fruit fly as a result of laboratory-engineered

mutations as the greatest evidence that mutations could lead to evolution. But the two wings in question
actually damage the creature rather than benefiting it, leading to its losing the ability to fly. The University
of California at Berkeley molecular biologist Jonathan Wells summarizes the position as follows:

In the 1970s, Cal Tech geneticist Edward B. Lewis discovered that by carefully breeding three mutant strains
he was able to produce a fruit fly in which the balancers were transformed into a second pair of normal-look-

ing wings.

The harmful effects of mutations can clearly be seen in the living
creatures illustrated. Mutations either cripple or kill.

Mutations cannot improve living things,
they can only harm them.

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