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The Defence System Cannot Have Been Formed By Evolution 135

sor of geology and paleoanthropology Stephen Jay
Gould states that natural selection can possess no evo-
lutionary power:
But how do you get from nothing to such an elaborate
something if evolution must proceed through a long
sequence of intermediate stages, each favored by nat-
ural selection? You can't fly with 2 percent of a wing or
gain much protection from an iota's similarity with a
potentially concealing piece of vegetation. How, in
other words, can natural selection explain these incipi-
ent stages of structures that can only be used (as we
now observe them) in much more elaborated form?
Mivart identified this problem as primary and it
remains so today. 14

Can the existence of such a complex system be ex-
plained, as suggested by Neo-Darwinists, in terms of
"mutations"? Is it really possible for such an excellent
system to form as a result of successive mutations?
As we know, mutations are decompositions and
damage taking place in the genetic codes of living beings
as a result of various external factors. All mutations
damage the genetic information programmed in the
DNA of a living being, without adding any new genetic
information to it. Therefore, mutations do not possess
any developmental or evolutionary faculty. Today, many
evolutionists accept this reality, though reluctantly.
One of these evolutionists, John Endler, a geneticist
from the University of California, comments:

Although much is known about mutation, it is still
largely a "black box" relative to evolution. Novel bio-
chemical functions seem to be rare in evolution, and