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boratory, let alone come into being by tations, practically all trivial or positi-
chance. vely deleterious, have been produced.
Man-made evoluti-
on? Not really: Few
Fruit flies of the geneticists'
monsters could have
All evolutionist efforts to establish survived outside the
beneficial mutations have ended in failu- bottles they were
re. In order to reverse this pattern, evolu- bred in. In practice
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out experiments on fruit flies, which rep- rile, or tend to revert
roduce very quickly and which can ea- to the wild type. 187
sily be subjected to mutations. Scientists In short, like all
have encouraged these insects to under- other living things, fruit flies possess
go all kinds of mutations, a great many specially created genetic information.
times. However, not one single useful The slightest alteration in that informati-
mutation has ever been observed. on only leads to harm.
The evolutionist geneticist Gordon
Futuyma, Douglas
R. Taylor describes these evolutionists’
pointless persistence: In his 1986 book Evolutionary Bio-
It is a striking, but not much mentioned logy, Douglas Futuyma maintained that
fact that, though geneticists have been natural selection was an evolutionary
breeding fruit flies for sixty years or mo- mechanism. The example Futuyma’s bo-
re in labs all round the world—flies ok cited was that of the color of a moth
which produce a new generation every population turning darker in Britain du-
eleven days—they have never yet seen ring the Industrial Revolution—one of
the emergence of a new species or even a the best known such examples. (See In-
new enzyme. 186 dustrial-Revolution moths, the.) Ho-

Another researcher, Michael Pitman, wever, he admitted, “Organisms either
expresses the failure of the experiments appeared on the earth fully developed,
on fruit flies: or they did not. If not, then they must ha-
ve developed from pre-existing species
. . . geneticists have subjected generati-
by some process of modification. If they
ons of fruit flies to extreme conditions of
did appear in a fully developed state,
heat, cold, light, dark, and treatment by
they must indeed have been created by
chemicals and radiation. All sorts of mu-

Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)