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ble by these sources of radiation. Maybe you could get a new eye in the
back of your head. In reality, if you are smart, you will avoid such radia-
tions, because they are much more likely to damage you than to improve
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All the mutations observed in human beings are harmful. All the
mental and physical defects described in medical textbooks as exam-
ples of mutation such as Down syndrome, albinism or dwarfism, or
diseases such as cancer, reveal mutations' destructive effects.
Obviously, any process that handicaps people or causes them to be-
come ill cannot be a mechanism that develops living things. DNA has
a very complex order, and so any random effects in this molecule can
only damage the organism.
Prof. Starkey says this about these damaging effects of mutations:

Being bombarded by mutation-causing radiation, would be like shooting
a new car with a 30-caliber rifle. Let's assume that it would be beneficial
if the ballast resister in your ignition system were located inside the inte-
rior of your car, under the dashboard, rather than out near the hot engine
. . .mutations caused by DNA copying errors would have a similar result.
. . mutations are harmful by a ratio of at least 10,000 to one. 231

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As a result of mutation, the components that make up genetic in-
formation are detached from their locations, damaged, or else trans-
ported to different regions of the DNA. They can never endow an or-
ganism with a new organ or a new attribute by adding new genetic in-
formation to its DNA. All they cause are abnormalities of existing char-
acteristics, such as an extra leg sticking out of the pelvis, or an ear out
of the stomach.
Prof. Werner Gitt answers the question "Can new information
emerge as the result of mutations?"
This idea is central in representations of evolution, but mutations can on-