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The NAS's Errors Regarding Mutations

In mutations caused in fruit flies, these insects have grown an extra pair of wings. However,
what evolutionists are reluctant to make clear is that these extra wings have no flight mus-
cles, and therefore represent a serious obstacle to the insect's flying at all. For that reason,
the mutations in question have handicapped the insects, rather than improved them.

the 20th century, and that is accepted even by evolutionists. Gordon
Taylor, former chief science advisor of the BBC, once said:

It is a striking, but not much mentioned fact that, though geneticists
have been breeding fruit-flies for sixty years or more in labs all
around the world—flies which produce a new generation every
eleven days—they have never yet seen the emergence of a new
species or even a new enzyme. 17
In his book Adam and Evolution, Professor Michael Pitman makes
this comment:

Morgan, Goldschmidt, Muller, and other geneticists have subjected
generations of fruit flies to extreme conditions of heat, cold, light,
dark, and treatment by chemicals and radiation. All sorts of muta-
tions, practically all trivial or positively deleterious, have been pro-
duced. Man-made evolution? Not really: Few of the geneticists'
monsters could have survived outside the bottles they were bred in.
In practice mutants die, are sterile, or tend to revert to the wild type. 18
In conclusion, neither fruit flies, nor bacterial resistance to antibi-
otics, nor sickle-cell anemia constitutes evidence of evolution.
Therefore, evolutionists' claims that mutations are the cause of evolu-
tion do not rest on scientific evidence.

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