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time, were subjected to the number of mutations they would
be exposed to for millions of years under natural conditions.
But even such rapid mutations produced no new species.

Scientists were not able to obtain any new genetic data.
In fruit flies, the classic case of supposed "beneficial mu-
tation" is the instance of the four-winged mutant. Normally,
fruit flies have two wings, but some with four wings have
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hatched occasionally. Darwinist literature offers this example
as a "development," but as Jonathan Wells has shown in de-
tail in his Icons of Evolution, this interpretation is wrong. These

extra wings have no muscles for flying and so are actually

Genes, in which are co ded
all forms of in for ma ti on
abo ut the struc tu res and
fe atu res of li ving things,
are da ma ged as a re sult of
mu ta ti ons—dest ruc ti ve
ef fects that you can cle arly
see in the pic tu re to the
si de. It is the re fo re im pos -
sib le for mu ta ti ons to ma ke
any cont ri bution to the ori-
gin of a new species.

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