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THE TRANSITIONAL-FORM DILEMMA

mutations to benefit a living species and improve its chances of breed-
ing and passing along its altered genes. In particular, it is impossible for
mutations to transform a different living species with new features in
incremental stages, starting from the very simplest, without damaging
that living thing’s overall structure or the flawlessness of its functions,
and without making its viability considerably more difficult.
Since mutations are random and unintentional, they cannot con-
struct in a series of moves a lung to help a fish move from the sea to the
land. Neither can they, either immediately or in gradual stages, turn
that creature’s fins into legs to bear its weight on land or let it walk com-
fortably without lurching. As a result of mutations, oddly shaped, de-

formed structures will emerge—somewhere between gills and lungs,
fins and legs, scales and feathers, feet and wings, a four-legged posture
and an upright one, crippled and with a great many abnormalities..

According to the theory of evolution, species developed from
one another by means of minute changes. If this claim by
evolutionists were true, then transitional form creatures of
the kind shown here should have been found. Yet there is not
a trace of them.

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