Mutations
Do Mutations Drive Evolution?
In the evolutionary model, mutations are hailed as a dominant mechanism for pond-scum-to-people evolution and provide “proof ” that the Bible’s history about creation is wrong. But are we to trust the ideas of imperfect, fallible men about how we came into existence?
Mutations and New Genetic Information
If new genetic information—required to build eyes where there are none, for example—does not occur in nature, then evolution is stuck in the water. For evolutionists, the solution comes in the form of mutations. The problem is that the only beneficial mutations ever observed do not add new information to the genome.
Mutations in Viruses
This study illustrates the fact that natural selection can operate on a series of mutations and even on other organisms to produce a population change with a noticeably new characteristic. Yet for all that, the result was diversity within a kind.
Mutations Could Help in Finding HIV Vaccine
Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) has frustrated efforts to create an effective vaccine. Analysis of naturally developed antibodies in a few infected patients, however, has uncovered a pattern in HIV mutations, a pattern that could be the key to developing an HIV vaccine.
Articles About Mutations
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Technical Research PaperProtein Families: Chance or Design?Dec. 1, 2001
We demonstrate that new gene families must overcome prohibitive statistical barriers before Darwinian processes can be invoked.
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Technical Research PaperDawkins’ Weasel RevisitedDec. 1, 1998, pp. 358–361
Zoology Professor Richard Dawkins claimed to show that random mutations could generate new structures such as organs or limbs by a computer programming exercise.
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Magazine ArticleThe ‘Werewolf’ GeneDec. 1, 1995, pp. 51–52
The general public is bombarded with evolutionary propaganda. A good example of such was found in a recent newspaper article titled 'Scientists move closer to finding "werewolf" gene'.
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Magazine ArticleAre Mutations Helpful?June 1, 1990, pp. 51–52
Because natural selection can only choose from what is there, evolutionists must have faith that somehow mutations provide the new raw material for living things to evolve into other life forms.
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Magazine ArticleIn Brief—D.N.A. Mutation and DesignMay 1, 1984, pp. 18–19
The living cell is a marvellous, complex piece of machinery. It contains energy converters (mitochondria), production factories (golgi bodies), and the ability to repair or duplicate itself.
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