[_ Old Earth _] Why Mutations cannot Produce Cross-species Change!

[MrVersatile48]

This chapter is based on pp. 393-459 of Origin of the Life (Volume Two of our three-volume Evolution Disproved Series).

Not included in this chapter are at least 134 statements by scientists. You will find them, plus much more, on our website: http://evolution-facts.org.

A mutation is damage to a single DNA unit (a gene).

If it occurs in a somatic (body) gene, it only injures the individual; but if to a gametic (reproductive) gene, it will be passed on to his descendants.

Mutations rank equally with fossils and natural selection as the three most important aspects of life evolution.

Fossil evidence in the sedimentary rock strata is supposed to provide evidence that species evolution has occurred in the past, and natural selection and mutations are the only means (mechanisms) by which it could occur...

In the chapter on Fossils and Strata, we will learn that there is simply no evidence that evolution of life forms has ever occurred in the past.

In the chapter on Natural Selection, we learned that the accidental gene reshuffling (which evolutionists call "natural selection") can indeed produce changes within speciesâ€â€but are totally incapable of producing different species.

So that brings us to mutations.

The study of mutations is crucial! It is all that the evolutionists have left! If mutations cannot produce evolution, then nothing can.

In this chapter you will learn that, far from being beneficial, mutations constitute something terrible that ruin and destroy organisms, either in the first generation or soon thereafter.

Not only is it impossible for mutations to cause the evolutionary process,â€â€they weaken or terminate the life process!

The reason we all fear radiation is because they are a powerful means of producing mutations that irreparably damage to our bodies


See http://evolution-facts.org

Click Handbook, scroll to topic title & enjoy the unmutated truth


For those who say I only parrot, I've said since the mid-'60s that ET demands that mutations be both beneficial & continuous, but every mutation observed is both detrimental & quickly corrected

Must mutate to bed!

Ian

 

[Patashu]

You have the wrong idea about mutations. They would only always be harmful if the genome were already perfect, and clearly it is not; our environment is changing all the time, from the evolution of other species (biotic factors) to changes in the non-living environment itself (abiotic factors), plus spatial movement can result in a different environment exerting selective pressures apon the species in question. If a similar body plan could be imagined to be slightly more fit in that environment then a mutation to that body plan IS benefitial and there is no reason to think this could not happen.

Mutations are only damaging the DNA if you define damage as making it different in any way. It's like saying that changing anything about your car is damaging it, while overlooking changing the tires, adding oil, tuning the engine up, installing new parts, etc etc. Mutation is not taking a hammer to the DNA and smashing it up, it's changing part of it so that it is expressed differently, for a better creature or worse (or for negligible change)

Here are some examples of benefitial mutations:

http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/mutations.html#Q2