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nents. Yet according to evolutionists, chance is able to produce systems
incomparably more perfect than this example, as well as the most deli-
cate balances. The logical contradiction here is obvious for anyone to see.
Every living thing is a unique marvel of creation. The proposed evo-
lutionary mechanisms, on the other hand, lend no support to evolution-
ist claims. The first of these mechanisms—natural selection—assumes
that those living things will survive that are best adapted to the challen-
ges of the environment in which they live; while those unable to adapt
will die out and disappear. According to evolutionists, this unconscious,
automatic mode of elimination endows surviving individuals with ever-
more complex organs and systems, but this claim has no valid proof or
scientific basis. Observation has shown that natural selection serves only
to weed out unfit individuals, but that there is no question of it endow-
ing survivors with new organs and systems.
The well-known biologist D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson summari-
zes this point:
. . . we . . . see in natural selection is not to create but to destroy—to
weed, to prune, to cut down and to cast into the fire. 2
In short, natural selection has nothing to do with the emergence of
any new species. Moreover, the natural selection process, being uncon-
scious, is unable to contribute new genetic information to living things.
In other words, even if natural selection does cause change in a living
thing, that change cannot transmit itself on to subsequent generations.
The only mechanism that can have impacts on genes is mutation—ran-
dom damage to a living thing's genetic structure, which has never been
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observed to add beneficial trait of any kind. Claims that evolution
occurs by means of natural selection are invalid, because:
1) Natural selection cannot plan or envisage an organism’s future
needs, and
2) Mutations can never endow a beneficial gain that leads to
progress.
Professor John W. Oller of the University of New Mexico refers to the
illogical nature of this claim of development through mutation: