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54 Modern Synthetic Theory of Evolution Myth, The

clear that in all re spects, the study is not the slight est in di ca tion, in ei -
had been aimed to wards the de sired ther the nu cle us of the mi to chon dria,
re sult. to show the fre quen cy with which
The mi to chon dri al DNA the sis DNA was sub ject ed to mu ta tion.
was de vel oped on the ba sis of mu ta - In terms of its own log ic, this the -
tions in DNA. But when the ev o lu - sis ac tu al ly shows that once again,
tion ists looked at hu man DNA, it there has been an at tempt to use ev -
was un clear how they de cid ed o lu tion as ev i dence for ev o lu tion.
which DNA rungs had formed as the Seeking ev i dence for ev o lu tion in
re sult of mu ta tion, and which were DNA is bi ased re search, based on
orig i nal and un changed. They had to the as sump tion that ev o lu tion took
start work from the orig i nal hu man place in any case.
DNA they claim must have ex ist ed. Why do ev o lu tion ists feel the
Yet the ev o lu tion ist de cep tion here is need to pull the wool over peo ple's
crys tal-clear: They as sumed chim - eyes in this way? The an swer is
pan zee DNA as their ba sis. 52 clear: Because there is no sci en tif ic
To put it an oth er way, in a study ev i dence to sup port ev o lu tion.
look ing for ev i dence that chim pan -
zee DNA turned in to hu man DNA,
the chim pan zee is tak en as the start - MODERN SYNTHETIC
ing point as the orig i nal pre his tor ic THEORY OF EVOLUTION
hu man. Right from the out set, the MYTH, THE
study is car ried out on the as sump - To the ques tion of "What is the
tion that ev o lu tion took place, and source of the ben e fi cial chan ges that
the re sult ob tained is then de pict ed cause liv ing things to de vel op?" sci -
as proof of ev o lu tion. In these cir - en tists meet ing at the American
cum stan ces, the study is far from be - Geological Association gave the an -
ing sci en tif ic. swer, "Random mu ta tions." Darwin
In ad di tion, if an ev o lu tion ist re - had giv en the same an swer by
search er is to em ploy reg u lar, use ful adopt ing the con cept of mu ta tion,
mu ta tions that he claims oc curred in based on Lamarck. But with add ing
DNA in cal cu lat ing the mo lec u lar the con cept of mu ta tion to Darwin's
clock, then he must al so cal cu late the nat u ral se lec tion, the new the o ry
speed of these mu ta tions. Yet there

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