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There is no single fossil showing that species developed
gradually. An examination of the layers of the Earth’s
crust and the fossil record reveals that life came into
being on Earth suddenly.
FALSE

on the contrary, they are always harmful. The horrific images
that appeared after the nuclear explosions in Chernobyl,
Hiroshima and Nagasaki are the exact results brought
about by mutations. The organisms with proper struc-
tures either died or were severely damaged by muta-
tions.
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. Ran-
ganathan explains this as follows:
First, genuine mutations are very rare in nature. Sec-
ondly, most mutations are harmful since they are ran-
dom, 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 better. For example, if an earthquake were to shake
a highly ordered structure such as a building, there would
be a random change in the framework of the building
which, in all probability, would not be an improve-
ment. (B. G. Ranganathan, Origins?, Pennsylvania:
The Banner of Truth Trust, 1988, p. 7.)