Page 149 - Darwinism Refuted

Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

Two famous proponents of the punctuated evolution model: Stephen Jay Gould and
Niles Eldredge.

In their book The Natural Limits to Biological Change, the geneticist
Lane Lester and the population biologist Raymond Bohlin describe the
blind alley represented by the notion of macromutation:
The overall factor that has come up again and again is that mutation remains
the ultimate source of all genetic variation in any evolutionary model. Being
unsatisfied with the prospects of accumulating small point mutations, many
are turning to macromutations to explain the origin of evolutionary
novelties. Goldschmidt's hopeful monsters have indeed returned. However,
though macromutations of many varieties produce drastic changes, the
vast majority will be incapable of survival, let alone show the marks of
increasing complexity. If structural gene mutations are inadequate because
of their inability to produce significant enough changes, then regulatory and
developmental mutations appear even less useful because of the greater
likelihood of nonadaptive or even destructive consequences… But one thing
seems certain: at present, the thesis that mutations, whether great or small,
are capable of producing limitless biological change is more an article of
faith than fact. 178

Observation and experiment both show that mutations do not
enhance genetic data, but rather damage living things. Therefore, it is
clearly irrational for proponents of the punctuated equilibrium theory to
expect greater success from "mutations" than the mainstream neo-
Darwinists have found.

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