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The Dark Spell of Darwinism
To dramatize the damage that mutation—either stoppages or changes in location in ge-
netic information—can wreak on an organism, the following example may be instruc-
tive. Above is the DNA code of the Beta-globin gene, which forms a part of the hemo-
globin gene carrying oxygen through the blood. The codes are read from left to right,
as in an English text. If just one of the elements in this code is wrong, the function of
the resulting protein will be completely vitiated. Clearly, any random interference will
ruin such a structure. Let's imagine that the letters in the above illustration formed a
meaningful text. If we remove any letter at random or change its location, we will not be
able to improve the text. The same applies to mutations, which cannot produce evolu-
tionary "development" through this kind of negative influence.
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