No 14

(Mutations)

The dictionary defines the word mutation as follows: “the act or process of changing; change; alteration; most mutations are harmful to a species” (World Book Dictionary). Mutations occasionally occur in nature because of genetic or DNA mistakes. The reproductive process in all living organisms is extremely complicated and sometimes mistakes or changes happen; say, 1 in 10,000. The result is a malformation in the species that is passed down to future generations and research has shown that all mutations are bad. Evolutionists agree that mutations are bad but they also say that occasionally these mistakes or changes have been beneficial to a species and has been the impetus behind the evolutionary process : “Molecules to Man”. They say that the new offspring can now run faster or gather food more efficiently or produce more of the new offspring and eventually, over eons of time, replace the original creature by the mutated one. How could mutations that are always bad for a species create a new and better one? Some even say that maybe God used mutations and evolution to create everything that is in the world today. Evolution, by definition, is wasteful, violent and inefficient; why would God, who is all-powerful, use this cruel method to create man? All life forms as we see them today were brought into existence fully formed and instantaneously by the Word of God: “In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by Him and without Him was not anything made that was made” (John 1:1-3). When I read these words, I just can’t imagine why so many people hold on to the evolutionary theory when creation is so simple. Wait a minute, might it be because they wish to eliminate God from the picture completely?