Page 97 - Devoted to Allah

Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

Today, the model that Darwinists espouse, despite their
own awareness of its scientific invalidity, is neo-Darwinism.
The theory maintains that millions of living beings formed as
a result of a process whereby numerous complex organs of
these organisms (e.g., ears, eyes, lungs, and wings) under-
went "mutations," that is, genetic disorders. Yet, there is an
outright scientific fact that totally undermines this theory:
Mutations do not cause living beings to develop; on the
contrary, they are always harmful.
The reason for this is very simple: DNA has a very
complex structure, and random effects can only harm it.
The American geneticist B. G. Ranganathan explains this as
follows:
First, genuine mutations are very rare in nature. Secondly,
most mutations are harmful since they are random, rather than
orderly changes in the structure of genes; any random change
in a highly ordered system will be for the worse, not for the bet-
ter. For example, if an earthquake were to shake a highly
ordered structure such as a building, there would be a ran-
dom change in the framework of the building which, in all
probability, would not be an improvement. 9
Not surprisingly, no mutation example, which is useful,
that is, which is observed to develop the genetic code, has
been observed so far. All mutations have proved to be harm-
ful. It was understood that mutation, which is presented as an
"evolutionary mechanism," is actually a genetic occurrence
that harms living things, and leaves them disabled. (The most
common effect of mutation on human beings is cancer.) Of
course, a destructive mechanism cannot be an "evolutionary
mechanism." Natural selection, on the other hand, "can do
nothing by itself," as Darwin also accepted. This fact shows us

95