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Once Upon a Time
There Was Darwinism

a clock, mutations have never led to the develop-
ment of new organisms, or cause existing ones to
evolve. Although the theory of evolution requires an in-

crease in genetic data, mutations always reduce and destroy
them.
Evolutionists, lacking even a single demonstrable mechanism
to support their theory, presented pseudogenes as by-products of
a phantom mechanism functioning in an imaginary evolutionary
process. They claimed that these allegedly useless DNA segments
were molecular "fossils" of so-called evolution. Their only support

for this claim was the lack of knowledge as to whether these genes
had any real function.
That is, up until May 1, 2003.
That was when Nature magazine published a study showing
the functionality of pseudogenes. In a letter titled "An expressed
pseudogene regulates the messenger-RNA stability of its homolo-
gous coding gene," researchers told of their observations in mice
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prepared for an experiment. According to the information they
gave, fatal mutations occurred in a line of transgenic mice as a re-

sult of genetic changes in pseudogenes called Makorin1-p1. They
observed in the mice polycystic kidneys and bone deformity.
It became evident why a change in the arrangement of the
pseudogene would have such a disastrous effect on the mice's or-
gans: A pseudogene is not just functional, but necessary.
An article in Nature evaluating this research stated that
this discovery challenged the popular belief of evolution-

ists that pseudogenes were simply "molecular fos-
sils." 99 And so, one more evolutionist myth
collapsed.

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