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44 CONFESSIONS OF THE EVOLUTIONISTS

Antennae
Leg
Eyes

Mouth
The head of a fruit fly
ex posed to ra di a tion;
The head of a
the legs pro trud ing
nor mal fruit fly.
from above the eyes.

To the side is a side view pho to graph of a fruit fly suf fer ing from mu ta tions.

Warren Weaver, an evolutionist scientist, wrote the following in a
report prepared by the Committee on Genetic Effects of Atomic
Radiation, established in the wake of the Second World War, to investi-
gate the mutations arising as the result of the use of nuclear weapons:
Many will be puzzled about the statement that practically all known mu-
tant genes are harmful. For mutations are necessary parts of the process
of evolution. How can a good effect-evolution to higher forms of life-re-
sult from mutations practically all of which are harmful? 89
Moreover, the mutant genes, in the vast majority of cases, and in all the
species so far studied, lead to some kind of harmful effect. In extreme cas-
es the harmful effect is death itself, or loss of the ability to produce off-
spring, or some other serious abnormality. 90

Michael Pitman is chief scientist of Australia and foreign secretary
of the Australian Academy of Science: