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Mutations
Mutations are genetic accidents that occur in living
things. Like all accidents, they cause harm and
destruction. "Evolution" through mutation is as
unlikely as the improvement of a clock by a hammer
blow.
ealizing that natural selection has no evolutionary function,
evolutionists introduced the concept of "mutation" to their
R claim in the 20th century. Mutations are distortions taking
place in the genes of organisms through external effects such as
radiation. Evolutionists claim that these distortions cause organisms to
evolve.
Scientific findings, however, reject this claim, because all observable
efficient mutations cause only harm to living things. All mutations that take
place in humans result in mental or physical deformities such as mongolism
(Down's syndrome), albinism, dwarfism, or diseases such as cancer.
Another reason why it is impossible for mutations to cause living things to evolve
is that mutations do not add any new genetic information to an organism. Mutations
cause existing genetic information to be randomly reshuffled similar to playing cards. In other
words, no new genetic information is introduced by mutations.
Evolutionary theory, however, asserts that the genetic information of living things increases
over time. For instance, while a very simply structured bacterium comprises of 2,000
different types of proteins, a human's organism has 100,000 types of proteins. Exactly
98,000 new proteins have to be "discovered" for a bacterium to evolve into a human being.
EFFECTS OF
CHERNOBYL
The main cause of
mutation in humans is
radioactivity. The effects of
mutations are always
detrimental. Those who
were exposed to mutation
because of the disaster in
Chernobyl either suffered
from fatal cancers or were
born with crippled organs
as seen in the pictures.