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to radiation assume a form very different from its original appearance.
But these changes cannot be passed on unless they take place in the

DNA molecule in some reproductive cell. This precondition –that in or-
der to affect future generations, the mutation must take place in only
one reproductive cell, out of all the trillions of cells in the body– makes
evolutionist expectations totally impossible.

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Mutations occur only very rarely. As a cell's DNA is being repli-
cated, enzymes perform a regulatory function. Therefore, as you have
seen in some detail, errors that survive the replication process are very
rare. Calculations show that only one living thing in a million will be
exposed to mutation. 240
The molecular biologist Prof. Gerald L. Schroeder criticizes ficti-
tious claims based on mutations:
The insights of molecular biology have revealed a complexity at every
stage of life's processes such that, if we were forced to rely on random
mutation to produce them step by step, in the words of Nobel laureate de
All the mutations observed in human beings are harmful. Because living
DNA has a highly complex structure, any random effect arising in this
molecule can only harm the organism. The only changes brought about
by mutations are handicaps, disease, and death.
Mutation
DNA helix

Separating, breaking
DNA fragments