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pairments that occur in a living organism’s perfect design. Their effects
are no different than that those of an earthquake striking a city construct-
ed with enormous regularity and design. Yet a living organism possesses
a structure much more complex and flawless than even the largest city.
This being so, mutations cannot endow a living thing with anything
new. Modern-day scientists admit as much, stating that mutations can
have no evolutionary effect. Michael George Pitman, a professor of plant
physiology, has this to say:
Do we, therefore, ever see mutations going about the business of pro-
ducing new structures for selection to work on? No nascent organ has
ever been observed emerging, though their origin in pre-functional form
is basic to evolutionary theory. Some should be visible today, occurring
in organisms at various stages up to integration of a functional new sys-
tem, but we don’t see them: There is no sign at all of this kind of radical
novelty. Neither observation nor controlled experiments has
shown natural selection manipulating mutations so as to pro-
duce a new gene, hormone, enzyme system, or organ. 97
Even Sir Julian Sorell Huxley, a prominent neo-
Darwinist who first added the concept of mutation to
Darwin’s claims regarding natural selection, admitted
that mutations had no effect:
