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The extra wings of four-winged
mutant fruit flies possess no flight
muscles, and are examples of a
handicap rather than of
development.

Dr. Grassé says that in the case of evolution, the problem

is that "some contemporary biologists, as soon as they observe a
mutation, talk about evolution." In his view, this opinion does Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)
not agree with the facts because "no matter how numerous they
may be, mutations do not produce any kind of evolution." 112
The best evidence that mutations do not produce new
genetic data is that of the fruit fly. Mutations done to fruit
flies show that in nature, balance, not change, dominates or-
ganisms. Due to the fast gestation period of fruit flies, which
lasts only 12 days, for years they have been the favorite sub-

ject of mutation experiments. In order to increase the muta-
tion rate by 15,000 percent, X-rays were used in these
experiments. Scientists could observe fruit flies that, in a short

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