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Mutations do not cause liv ing beings to devel op; on the
con tra ry, they are always harm ful.
The rea son for this is very sim ple: DNA has a very
com plex struc ture, and ran dom effects can only harm
it. The American genet i cist B. G. Ranganathan explains
this as fol lows:
First, gen u ine muta tions are very rare in nature.
Secondly, most muta tions are harm ful since they are
ran dom, rath er than order ly chan ges in the struc ture
of genes; any ran dom change in a high ly ordered
sys tem will be for the worse, not for the bet ter. For
exam ple, if an earth quake were to shake a high ly
ordered struc ture such as a build ing, there would be
a ran dom change in the frame work of the build ing
which, in all prob a bil i ty, would not be an improve -
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Not sur pris ing ly, no muta tion exam ple, which is use -
ful, that is, which is observed to devel op the genet ic
code, has been observed so far. All muta tions have
proved to be harm ful. It was under stood that muta tion,
which is pre sent ed as an "evo lu tion a ry mech a nism," is
actu al ly a genet ic occur rence that harms liv ing things,
and leaves them dis a bled. (The most com mon effect of
muta tion on human beings is can cer.) Of course, a
destruc tive mech a nism can not be an "evo lu tion a ry
mech a nism." Natural selec tion, on the other hand, "can
do noth ing by itself," as Darwin also accept ed. This fact

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