Page 272 - If Darwin Had Known about DNA

Harun Yahya

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Since the er-
rors emerging
during the DNA
copying proc-
ess are the
smallest possi-
ble mutations,
neo-Darwinists
thought that
they could
base their theo-
ries on them.
Today it is un-
derstood that
such claims
are invalid.

We believe that there is a considerable gap in the neo-Darwinian theory
of evolution, and we believe this gap to be of such a nature that it cannot
be bridged within the current conception of biology. 226

According to neo-Darwinism, random genetic mutations repre-
sent the raw material of evolution. But as many scientists today agree,

the level of complexity in life cannot be acquired through the process-
es of trial and error hypothesized by neo-Darwinism. Dr. Lee Spetner
sets out the impossibility of this: "But if their variations are random,

they too cannot account for a build up of genetic information. The
chances are almost nil . . . you cannot expect to get a large adaptive ge-
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netic rearrangement by chance." .