Mutations Show Evidence for the Creation Model
by Owen Omid Borville
November 30, 2018
Biology
Creationists have explained that mutations in living organisms give strong evidence for their created origin and give strong evidence against evolution. Mutations are genetic changes in living organisms that contribute to genetic variability and are caused by errors during cellular genetic processes or from chemicals or radiation from outside the organism. Mutations cause the variations that we see in species or kinds of living things. Mutations cause variant versions of genes known as alleles. While some mutations cause disease in organisms, others have no effect on the organism. Evolutionists believe that mutations can add genetic information to organisms that lead to their proposed macro-evolutionary process through natural selection. However, molecular geneticist Dr. Georgia Purdom explains that mutations only alter current genetic information and have never been observed to add genetic information. Biophysicist Dr. Lee Spetner explains that "all point mutations that have been studied on the molecular level turn out to reduce the genetic information and not increase it." If mutations reduce genetic information, then individual species could not exist for millions of years and would become extinct in only thousands of years. According to F.J. Ayala of Scientific American and referenced by Dr. Jonathan Sarfati, most of the variation in populations arises from reshuffling of previously existing genes and not from mutations. The creationist model shows that genetic information in species does not improve or "evolve" but rather becomes progressively more damaged after having originally been created perfect during the creation week 6,000 years ago. Despite modern medicine, the average human lives only about 80 years since the Genesis Flood 4,600 years ago and disease is just as common today as in ancient times.
F.J. Ayala. 'The Mechanisms of Evolution' Scientific American 239(3):48-61, September 1978, p. 55.
Sarfati, Jonathan. Refuting Evolution. Fourth Edition, 2008.
by Owen Omid Borville
November 30, 2018
Biology
Creationists have explained that mutations in living organisms give strong evidence for their created origin and give strong evidence against evolution. Mutations are genetic changes in living organisms that contribute to genetic variability and are caused by errors during cellular genetic processes or from chemicals or radiation from outside the organism. Mutations cause the variations that we see in species or kinds of living things. Mutations cause variant versions of genes known as alleles. While some mutations cause disease in organisms, others have no effect on the organism. Evolutionists believe that mutations can add genetic information to organisms that lead to their proposed macro-evolutionary process through natural selection. However, molecular geneticist Dr. Georgia Purdom explains that mutations only alter current genetic information and have never been observed to add genetic information. Biophysicist Dr. Lee Spetner explains that "all point mutations that have been studied on the molecular level turn out to reduce the genetic information and not increase it." If mutations reduce genetic information, then individual species could not exist for millions of years and would become extinct in only thousands of years. According to F.J. Ayala of Scientific American and referenced by Dr. Jonathan Sarfati, most of the variation in populations arises from reshuffling of previously existing genes and not from mutations. The creationist model shows that genetic information in species does not improve or "evolve" but rather becomes progressively more damaged after having originally been created perfect during the creation week 6,000 years ago. Despite modern medicine, the average human lives only about 80 years since the Genesis Flood 4,600 years ago and disease is just as common today as in ancient times.
F.J. Ayala. 'The Mechanisms of Evolution' Scientific American 239(3):48-61, September 1978, p. 55.
Sarfati, Jonathan. Refuting Evolution. Fourth Edition, 2008.
