In the late 1800s and early 1900s with the advent of better microscopes and trait inheritance experimentation, the science of genetics was born. While some see the monumental amount of information within the DNA code as magnificently programmed, there have been some who claim that the accumulation of copying mistakes in DNA can produce all of the tree of life. Beneficial mutations are asserted to provide the raw material for the additional information required to transform bacteria into biologists over billions of years. It is these the accumulation of these mutations (about which Darwin could not yet have known about) that turned out to be the “modifications” of his famous contention “numerous successive slight modifications.” With the addition of random mutations to natural selection and deep time, evolution now had a naturalistic alternative to the creation story of the Bible.

Unfortunately (for evolution), mutations have never been shown to add new information. Instead as is shown by Dr. Michael Behe’s book, Darwin Devolves, mutations only break and degrade genetic code.

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