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Alternatively, in a rabbit population endangered by predators,
those who can run fastest survive. But note that no new charac-
teristic emerges here. Creatures already existing do not give birth
to offspring of a different species, and no different feature is

passed along. To provide another example, the fastest running in-
dividuals in a herd of antelopes exposed to attacks by lions will
survive, while the slower ones are captured. But these fast-run-
ning antelopes will never turn into horses or any other species of
animal. Therefore, natural selection has no evolutionary force.
Colin Patterson, chief palaeontologist at London's Natural
History Museum and himself an evolutionist, admits as much:
No one has ever produced a species by mechanisms of natur-
al selection. No one has ever got near it and most of the cur-
rent argument in neo-Darwinism is about this question. 2
Mutations, on the other hand, are the impairments that
emerge in the genes of living things as a result of external factors
such as radiation or copying errors in DNA. Mutations may of

course lead to distinctive changes, but these changes are never
positive, but always either neutral or destructive. To put it anoth-
er way, mutations cannot cause living things to develop. Of all
the mutations that have so far been observed, most have been
harmful, and the rest neutral. As it has advanced, science has de-
scribed millions of harmful mutations and revealed the inherited
diseases these lead to. That evolutionist scientists are unable to
point to a single mutation that has increased genetic information
represents a serious dilemma for the theory of evolution.
Pierre-Paul Grassé, former director of the French Academy
of Sciences (Academie des Sciences), has likened mutations to
"spelling mistakes during the copying of a written text." Like any
spelling mistake, mutations cannot give rise to information, but