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ing for favorable mutations to occur (and just how does that happen,
by the way?), then anxiously guard them until enough accumulate for
selection to push the population toward new and useful change?
There you have the mathematical arguments of neodarwinism that
Waddington and others rightly characterized as "vacuous". 10
Grassé has this to say on the same point:
Mutations, in time, occur incoherently. They are not complementary
to one another, nor are they cumulative in successive generations to-
ward a given direction. 11

Even if we grant what evolutionists can never actually demon-
strate and accept that "favorable mutations" have come about in the
necessary quantities, this still does not save the theory of evolution.
Some important calculations by the Israeli bio-physicist Dr. Lee
Spetner, who has worked at some of the most eminent universities in

the world, such as MIT and Johns Hopkins, were brought to the at-
tention of the scientific world in the book Not By Chance. In this book,
which questions neo-Darwinism, Spetner employs the figures given
by evolutionist authorities (such as mutation frequency and the ratio
of "favorable mutations" to all mutations) and makes a detailed calcu-
lation of whether it is possible for one species to change into another.
His conclusion is striking: Impossible! Even if we accept the theoreti-
cal existence of "favorable mutations," which have never been ob-
served in experiments, it is still impossible for these to accumulate

consecutively and in the right direction in a living species. It is also
impossible for them to be permanent due to the disadvantages they
bring with them, and thus it is impossible for a new species to emerge.
No evolutionist has been able to give a satisfactory response to
Spetner's calculation.

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