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Wayne Jackson, M.A.
...They X-rayed the daylights out of ole Drosophila melanogaster. They changed the eye colors from pink to white to red and black again. They changed the wings this way and that. They worked on the salivary glands. They increased and decreased the number of bristles. They strained and sweated for thousands of hours to change Drosophila into something else. What happened? Two things. One, the mutant flies either died over a period of generations, or, they came back to their original, normal conditions!! They could not be changed!! Drosophila melanogaster, frozen, steamed, blinded by light and darkness, and fried with X-rays, remained Drosophila 5 melanogaster.
MUTATIONS DEFINED
Living organisms are composed of cells containing genes. Genes contain the hereditary material by which the organism is duplicated. Whenever a change takes place in the genetic material, whether from extraneous sources or from the genes damaging themselves, a mutation is said to occur. Evolutionists believe that mutations can be collected and sorted by the process of natural selection and thus produce an entirely new kind of living being. This is utter nonsense, as the following facts reveal.
It is high time that honest people face the truth: mutations simply cannot explain the differences in the almost infinite variety of living things upon the planet Earth. There is a vast chasm between the different kinds (Genesis 1:11-12,21,24) of creatures. It is an impassable gulf that cannot be explained in terms of any known mechanism. But without some explanation of change, the evolutionary concept must be abandoned. In spite of the evidence, however, it is likely that evolutionists (refugees from the concept of creation) will continue to blindly and dogmatically contend for progressive mutations. It is important to observe, however, that when Jehovah created the different kinds of creatures, He obviously built into the genetic fabric the potential for the development of varieties (within certain defined limitations). The DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) that is within a single human cell, for example, contains enough coded information that would, if6 translated into English, fill a 1,000 volume set of encyclopedias. This certainly could account for the development of different varieties of people within the human kind. The faith required to believe that God created things after their own kind is considerably more rational than a nonsensical belief in evolution.
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1 World Book Encyclopedia, 1966, 13:809. 2 Scientific American, November 1955, p. 58. 3
Simpson, George Gaylord (1953), The Major Features of Evolution (New York: Simon & Schuster), p. 96.
Hall, Marshall and Sandra Hall (1974), The Truth: God or Evolution? (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker), p. 112. Readers Digest, October 1962, p. 148.
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