Since Evolutionists put forth the hypothesis of evolution through mutations, many experiments have been conducted on life forms to produce genetic mutations. The most popular life form for these experiments have been fruit flies. What has been the end result? While they have, through exposure to radiation, been able to produce mutated fruit flies, what they have not been able to do is reproduce fruit flies from mutated fruit flies. This is because without exception all mutated fruit flies are sterile and die without ever being able to pass on their mutated genes. The end result of all these experiments has been complete and total failure to give any evidence that life on earth evolved through genetic mutations.^{405/11-12, 408/273-274} What they discovered was that no mutation produced knew organs. They discovered that species can vary within certain limits, but cannot go beyond the boundary of their species.^406/124-125

Many mutational experiments were also done on E. coli bacteria. The results were the same: While they came up with different strains of E. coli bacteria, it remained E. coli bacteria.^407/88 C. H. Waddington, a biologist at the University of Edinburgh, had put it this way:

"[A] new gene mutation can cause an alteration only to a characteristic which the organism had had in previous generations. It could not produce a lobster's claw on a cat; it could only alter the cat in some way, still leaving it essentially a cat."^20/197

What does this prove? It proves that diversification of life did not come about through mutational evolution. It also proves that diversification of life within a species does not prove evolution; it proves that diversification within a species is possible but not outside the species and that this diversification did not come about through mutations, but was always present within the DNA of the species to start with. The issue is not whether variations can be achieved within a species but whether a species can mutate into a new and completely different species. This has never been proved in any experiment on any level.

According to scientists, the minimum number of mutations necessary to bring about the simplest new structure in an organism is five.^405/67-68 However, these five mutations must be of the right kind and must be functionally related. This means that not just any five mutations will do the job. The odds of five mutations taking place functionally related at the same time in a single organism by chance are astronomically impossible. Scientists believe only one mutation takes place in every 100,000 gene replications.^408/272 The probability of five non-harmful mutations taking place functionally related in a single cell is 1 in 10⁴⁰.^409/5 If one hundred trillion, 10¹⁴, bacteria were produced every second for five billion years, 10¹⁷ seconds, the resulting population would be only 1/1,000,000,000 of what was needed.

This is just the first step. Next, these five mutations must somehow be brought together to be integrated and function in concert with each other. Next, this integrated function must provide some advantage or be scattered within the population due to interbreeding.^406/1/87 With these odds, it is not possible to explain through these means how complex life forms came into being given any amount of time. For example: the wing of the fruit fly alone involves 30-40 genes. This means that given the age of the universe, as evolutionists define it, through random selection you might produce one wing of a fruit fly. That is trillions of years away from a fully formed fruit fly let alone an animal or human. Evolution is not the answer about how we got here. As a result Gertrude Himmelfarb in her book Darwin and the Darwinian Revolution (1959) concluded:

"It is now discovered that favorable mutations are not only small but exceedingly rare, and the fortuitous combination of favorable mutations such as would be required for the production of even a fruit fly, let alone a man, is so much rarer still that the odds against it would be expressed by a number containing as many naughts as there are letters in the average novel, ‘a number greater than that of all the electrons and protons in the visible universe’—an improbability as great as that a monkey provided with a typewriter would by chance peck out the works of Shakespeare."^20/196

Mutation Illustration

What do known mutations indicate? First, that the human mutation problem is bad and getting worse. Second, that with this increasing bad results of mutation there is not one good off setting beneficial mutation known in existence. Mutations maim, cripple and sometimes kill. Gene therapy masks the effects of these genetic defects, but they do not reverse the underlying degenerative process. This slow ongoing mutation rate in the human gnome will eventually turn the human genetic code into meaningless gobbledygook.

What do mutations indicate about the Book of Genesis? Mutations indicate that what Moses recorded in Genesis is true: that in the beginning when God created Adam and Eve using DNA as the basis for maintaining the bodies that He gave them, that the information in DNA was perfect and complete to start with. It also proves that when Adam and Eve sinned and God cursed the ground and man, that man came into bondage to corruption evidenced by documented destructive mutations. It is evidence of that curse because no new beneficial information is being added to our DNA, only destructive results through mutations. They indicate that man’s physical body as well as his soul are corrupted and in the process of corruption needing God’s redemption. This is exactly God’s promise to those who turn to His Son’s death and shed blood on the cross for redemption: in the resurrection of the righteous a new uncorrupted body and a redemption of the ecosystem as well for the new uncorrupted body to thrive in without corruption.

"Now I say this, brethren, that flesh and blood is not able to inherit the kingdom of God; nor does corruption inherit the incorruptible. Behold, I tell you a mystery; we shall not all sleep [die], but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet; for the trumpet will sound and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruptibility, and this mortal must put on immortality. But when this corruptible will have put on the incorruptible, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then will come about the saying that is written, ‘Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?’ The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law; But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ." (1 Corinthians 15:50-57)

"For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that is to be revealed to us. For the anxious longing of the creation waits eagerly for the revealing of the sons of God. For the creation was subjected to futility, not of its own will, but because of Him who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself also will be set free from its slavery to corruption into the freedom of the glory of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation groans and suffers the pains of childbirth together until now. And not only this, but also we ourselves, having the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our body." (Romans 8:18-23)

Genesis teaches that man’s body was made from the dust of the ground. For years scientists laughed at this passage because of the complex elements and molecules that man is made of. However, after a century of research scientists have since discovered that clay and earth contain every single element found in the human body (Reader’s Digest, November 1982).

Moses wrote in Leviticus 17:11, "For the life of the flesh is in the blood." Man’s life, the Bible tells us, is in the blood. There are over seventy-five thousand miles of blood vessels in our body. This is enough to go around the earth three times. Due to modern medical science we now know that the blood that these vessels carry feed an incredible sixty trillion cells within the human body. Chemical sensors detect nutrients in the blood that are needed and make it possible for the cell to connect with these nutrients.^288/154-155 Moses had no microscopes and there were no existing cultures in his day which could have given him this information. There is no other way he could have known this except Yehovah God had revealed it to him.

Computers in the fifties were made up of literally thousands of vacuum tubes. In the 1960s transistors came into being which are about the size of an eraser which replaced vacuum tubes. Now transistors can be reduced in size so small that we can literally place more than 37 million of them within a square inch.

Fourteen years ago we were talking about storing 100KB of information on a computer. In an August 2002 issue of PC Magazine is an article (p. 29) about Nano Punch Cards developed by IBM which has the capacity to store within the size of a postage stamp 117.5GB of infromation.

How fast are computers today? A computer at NASA Gadard has 512 processors at the high end of todays PCs. The speed of light is approximately a foot per nano-second. In the time light can travel one foot, this computer can perform 75 additions or multiplications of fourteen digit numbers. When we compare this to the brain, this computer pales in significance. When we talk about the human brain we are not talking about thousands or billions of connects, but trillions with many nodes that can connect back and forth in the brain. Each node has multiple connections, up to 25,000.

When we talk about being able to do multiple things on a computer simultaneously, actually we are only doing one thing at a time at a very high speed. However, even this high speed does not compare to the speed at which the brain can interpret information and how many things the brain has to handle every day.

Our three pound brain consisting of 100 billion nerve cells is an intricately woven tissue, the most complicated aggregation of matter in the universe. The seat of our consciousness in which thinking and feeling take place is called the mind which is not a computer, but has a computer we call the brain.

One cell has billions of components, not millions such as a central processor. When we look at the computer like the hard drive, we talk about a standard hardrive or harddisk to store information on with an average capacity of 40GB. The single cell holds more information than this in its DNA.

The complexity of the human brain is currently beyond man’s understanding. One such process of the brain is that of sight. The retina of our eye is actually part of the human brain. Two optic nerves responsible for carrying signals from the retina to the brain consists of 1 million fibers. To simulate 10ms of the complete processing of even a single nerve cell from the retina would require the solution of 500 simultaneous non-linear differential equations 100 times and would take several minutes of processing time on a Cray Super-Computer. There are about 10 million light sensitive cells in the retina that are packed in the density of about 200,000 cells per square millimeter which is about the thickness of a dime.

While the retina may record what hits the eye, the brain must understand and process the information from the retina. The brain must recognize the image and then integrate it into something useful.

Considering the idea that the eye evolved according to evolutionists: the dilemma is how did a group of highly complex molecules get together and decide they wanted to create an eye? Without a group of committee meetings this doesn’t make much sense. When they started to make an eye, when did they know when to stop? A quarter of an eye is a useless organ just dragging around that cannot see anything. Even when the eye became fully formed, it would still be useless without the brain. It required an intelligent designer to say, "We now have an eye and a brain, now we can see."