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of variation which affords no proof for the theory of evolution. Peter and Rosemary Grant went to the
Galapagos to look for proof for the so-called Darwinian evolu-
tion and spent years observing the finches on the islands; in

their well-known study, they managed only to document the
fact that evolution had not occurred. 109

What Good are Mutations?

The data contained in the gene is highly complex, as
are the molecular "machines" that code it, read it and
perform their productive functions accordingly. No

random event that can affect this system, and no "acci-
dent" can bring about any increase in the amount of
genetic data.
Imagine a computer programmer engaged in

writing a software when on computer and a book
falls on his keyboard, striking a few keys and insert-
ing random letters and numbers into the text. A mu-
tation is something like this. Just as such an

accident would contribute nothing to the com-
puter program—in fact, it would ruin it—so muta-
tions vandalize the genetic code. In Natural Limits
to Biological Change, Lester and Bohlin write that The extra wings of four-winged

"mutations are mistakes, errors in the precise ma- mutant fruit flies possess no flight muscles, and
chinery of DNA replication" which means "muta- are examples of a handicap rather than of
development.
tions, genetic variation, and recombination by themselves
will not generate major evolutionary change." 110

This logically ex-
pected result was
proven by observa-

tions and experiments
in the 20th century.
Genes, in which are No mutation was ob-
coded all forms of
information about served to improve
the structures and the genetic data of
features of living
things, are dam- an organism so as to
aged as a result of cause a radical
mutations—de-
structive change.
effects that you can For this reason,
clearly see in the
picture to the despite the fact that
side. It is therefore he accepts the the-
impossible for mu-
tations to make any ory of evolution,
contribution to the Pierre-Paul Grassé,
origin of a new former president
species.
of the French
Academy of

Sciences, says that
mutations are

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