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ly cause changes in existing information. There can be no increase in in-
formation, and in general the results are injurious. New blueprints for
new functions or new organs cannot arise; mutations cannot be source of
new (creative) information. 232

On the same subject, Prof. Phillip Johnson has this to say:
Spetner told them that the adaptive mutations cited by Darwinists are not
information-creating. When a mutation makes a bacterium resistant to
antibiotics, for example, it does so by disabling its capacity to metabolize
a certain chemical. There is a net loss of information and of fitness in a
general sense… one can sometimes "fix" a sputtering radio by hitting its
case if the rough motion happens to reseat a loose wire or open a short
circuit. But no one would expect to build a better radio, much less a tele-
vision set, by accumulating such changes. 233

The well-known evolutionist Stephen Jay Gould admits the facts
regarding mutations:
You don't make new species by mutating the species . . .A mutation is not
the cause of evolutionary change. 234
There is yet another proof that mutations do not add new charac-
teristics of the kind required by the theory of evolution. To produce
new characteristics or new species, several atoms must be added to the
organism's DNA. 235 In human DNA, there are up to 204 billion atoms-
3,000 times more atoms than in the DNA of the bacterium E. coli. 236 For
that reason, in order for a single-celled organism to develop into a hu-

man being, more than 200 billion atoms of carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen
and phosphorus would have to be added to its DNA. 237 As you know,
carbon and nitrogen can be obtained from the air, hydrogen and oxy-
gen from water, and phosphorus from soil. But the real problem is the
extraction and relocation of these atoms in exactly the right place in the
DNA molecule. Atoms would have to arrange themselves so as to con-
tain sugar groups, phosphate groups and nitrogen bases with extraor-
dinary complexity, and be located in just the right part of the double he-