Page 17 - Never Plead Ignorance

HARUN YAHYA 15

Evolutionists claim that living beings evolve through two main mech-
anisms: "Mutation" and "Natural Selection".
According to evolutionists, a reason for evolutionary change is ran-
dom mutations occurring in the genetic structure of living beings. They
claim that consecutive little mutations create new species. Yet, mutations
only cause damage to the DNA, the structure in which all the information
pertaining to the cell is coded. The effects of mutations are always harm-
ful and it is implausible that mutation leads to the formation of a new
species. All the mutations that we know of that take place in humans re-
sult in physical deformities, in infirmities such as mongolism, albinism,
dwarfism or cancer. The people exposed to the radiation of the nuclear
weapons dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the recent past are con-
crete examples of the mutations occurring in living beings due to radia-
tion.
Natural selection holds that those living things that are more suited
to the natural conditions of their habitats will prevail by having offspring
that will survive, whereas those that are unfit will disappear. However,
this claim has no relation to evolution. Natural selection only weeds out
the weak individuals of a species and accordingly lead to a society made
up of strong individuals. In other words, natural selection cannot produce
new species.
Evolutionists are also aware of this fact. Colin Patterson, senior
palaeontologist of the Museum of Natural History in England, stresses
that natural selection has never been observed to have the power to make
things evolve:

No one has ever produced a species by mechanisms of natural selection. No
one has ever got near it and most of the current argument in neo-Darwinism
is about this question.
So, never plead ignorance that neither of the mechanisms, behind
which evolutionists hide, are magic wands that transform living organ-
isms into more advanced and perfect forms gradually by chance.