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A DEFINITIVE REPLY
TO EVOLUTIONIST
PROPAGANDA
changes in living things' genetic codes brought about by various ex-
ternal factors such as radiation and chemical effects. The genetic
code of a healthy living thing possesses a flawless order and se-
quence. Ninety-nine percent of mutations damage DNA (the other
1 percent having no effect). Mutations tear apart, destroy, or confuse
the DNA sequences in which a living thing's genetic code is
recorded—that is, they eliminate existing information. Hiroshima,
Nagasaki, and Chernobyl are just a few contemporary examples of
the damaging effect radiation has on genes. As a result of the ge-
netic mutations caused by these tragedies, countless people and
other living things lost their lives, many were crippled, and handi-
capped individuals were born in subsequent generations.
The American geneticist B.G. Ranganathan describes the dam-
age mutations do to living organisms in these terms:
First, genuine mutations are very rare in nature. Secondly, most
mutations are harmful since they are random, rather than orderly
changes in the structure of genes; any random change in a highly
ordered system will be for the worse, not for the better. For exam-
ple, if an earthquake were to shake a highly ordered structure such
as a building, there would be a random change in the framework of
the building, which, in all probability, would not be an improve-
ment. 7
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