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The Errors of the American National Academy of Sciences

A species can only change to the extent that its genes permit.

Rabbits always remain rabbits, and zebras remain zebras. That is

because the genetic pool (genome) of a species prevents it from turning
into another one. A species can only change to the extent permitted by
its genes.
Darwin, however, loaded an extra meaning onto natural selection
over and above this scientific definition, and suggested that it was the
basic mechanism of evolution. According to Darwin and contempo-
rary evolutionists, natural selection, devoid of any reason or con-

sciousness, began with a single-celled bacterium and gradually, over
billions of years, created such marvels as trees, birds, flowers, ants,
deer, parrots, strawberries, oranges, horses, peacocks, and human be-
ings. It is clear that this claim is inconsistent and unscientific, because
natural selection cannot bring about new characteristics or new ge-
netic information; it can only select between among what already ex-
ists.
Stephen Jay Gould, one of the theory of evolution's most promi-
nent supporters, says that evolutionists are seeking from natural selec-

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