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HARUN YAHYA

Mutation and the Molecular Clock Deception

The program on The Discovery Channel carries various pieces
of speculation about when the first Americans might have reached
the continent. This migration was first thought to have taken place
15,000 years ago. The program describes how following mtDNA
analyses, the date was put back by another 5,000 years, to 20,000
years ago. One researcher whose views were reported says that a
mutational difference had been identified between those people
who crossed the Bering Strait to America and those who remained
in Asia. He then goes on to comment on the "molecular clock,"
something that is frequently cited by evolutionist researchers, using
the expression "if we assume that a mutation takes place once every
20,000 years …" Yet this interpretation is nothing but an evolution-
ist castle in the air, based on no scientific foundation: The concept of
the molecular clock used in the identification of genetic mutations
is a completely hollow concept, the result of prejudiced views.
It will now be useful to consider this concept, so frequently re-
sorted to in the evolutionists' distortions of the genetic facts, in more
depth.
The so-called molecular clock hypothesis assumes that the
amino acids in the proteins of living things, or the nucleotides in
their genes, change at a particular rate. The claim put forward on
The Discovery Channel that human beings undergo a mutation
once every 20,000 years is based on that hypothesis. Evolutionists
examine the mitochondria of chimpanzees and human beings, who
are assumed to have descended from a common ancestor, and iden-
tify different nucleotides within the analogous regions of the DNA.
Assuming man and chimpanzees to have split apart some 6 million
years ago, they divide that 6 million by the number of their differ-
ent nucleotides, thus coming up with a kind of timetable of imagi-
nary mutations.
Naturally, these claims are based on nothing more than evolu-
tionist prejudice, and have no meaning whatsoever in the face of the

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