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The NAS's Errors Regarding Mutations

In order for a gilled fish to become a creature breathing with lungs, it would need a great
many mutations. To expect "beneficial" mutations and ones "aimed directly at the transition
to the lung" to keep occurring is to believe in the impossible.

tions in order to possess an eye and an optic system. Expecting "ben-
eficial" mutations accurately directed towards the eye, optic nerves,
and visual center in the brain to keep occurring among that creature's
descendants is to believe in the impossible. Therefore, consciousness

and power are required to continue in that creature's descendants.
Furthermore, they must foresee that the creature will need to see the
outside world, they must provide all the necessary genetic informa-
tion regarding vision and the eye, and they must carefully bring ben-
eficial and accurate mutations together down the generations. Yet,
there is no such consciousness and intelligence in nature.
Several evolutionists have drawn attention to this impossibility.
For example, Professor Kevin Padian, of the University of California
at Berkeley, asks whether random mutations in nature give rise to liv-

ing species:
How do major evolutionary changes get started? Does anyone still be-
lieve that populations sit around for tens of thousands of years, wait-

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