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will never produce new species or higher taxa (genera, families, orders, classes, phyla).
2) In nature, external interference with the genes of organisms comes about only through mutations.
But these mutations are never beneficial nor produce new genetic data; they only destroy the existing one.
Therefore, it is impossible to explain the "origin of species" in terms of natural selection, as Darwin

thought to do. No matter how much "selection" dogs are subjected to, they will always remain dogs; there
is no sense in asserting that they were actually fish or bacteria in the past.
So, what of the "external interference" in the genes, or mutations?
Since the 1930s the Darwinist theory has relied on this alternative, and for this reason, the theory's

name was changed to "neo-Darwinism." However, mutations were not able to rescue the theory—an im-
portant topic to examine separately.

Galapagos Creatures Refute Evolution

The various finches that Darwin observed in the Galapagos were an example of variation and, as with
other examples, offered no definite proof for evolution. Observations made in the last few years have
shown that finches have not undergone the kind of limitless alteration that Darwin's theory supposed.

Moreover, most of the different types of finches, which Darwin thought to represent 14 separate species,
were actually variations of the same species, able to mate with one another. Scientific observations have
shown that the example of the finch's bill, cited by almost all evolutionist literature, is actually an example

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