“EVOLUTION” FALLACY

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The Theory of (Biological) Evolution is the unbiblical claim that all living things can be traced back to a common ancestor and evolved into what they are through mutations and the natural selection process (“survival of the fittest”). However, science has proven that mutations do not and cannot add new genetic information (or increase existing information) to cause one species to evolve into a different species. Mutations can only produce small changes within a species’ existing genetics. Furthermore, “Natural selection only operates on the information that is already contained in the genes—it does not produce new information” (Lane P. Lester, The Natural Limits to Biological Change).

For a species to evolve into a different species, a new genetic blueprint would be required to develop the new limbs, organs, and functions needed. For example, a great white shark cannot evolve into a human over time without new genetic information added to transform its gills into lungs for breathing outside air and its fins into legs to walk on land. In other words, a great white shark’s DNA only provides instructions to develop gills for extracting oxygen exclusively from water—not for growing lungs to breathe outside air. Furthermore, its DNA does not give instructions to grow or develop legs for mobility on land. It only provides instructions to develop fins for maneuvering exclusively in water. Therefore, a great white shark cannot evolve into a human or any other species without new or additional DNA added to its "blueprint,"—and mutations do not and cannot add or increase genetic information to accomplish this feat. They can only produce small changes within a species’ existing DNA. Therefore, the claim that one species can evolve into another species (and another and another) is false. Consequently, biological evolution has never been scientifically observed, verified, or proven because it is impossible.

Dr. Werner Gitt, director and professor at the German Federal Institute of Physics and Technology, stated, “Can new information originate through mutations? Although the idea is central in representations of evolution, mutations can only cause changes in existing information. There can be no increase in information, and, in general, the results are injurious, not helpful. New blueprints for new functions or new organs cannot arise from mutations. Mutations cannot be the source of new information.”

Dr. Lee Spetner of Johns Hopkins University stated, “In all the study I have done in my career in life sciences, I have never found a mutation that added information. All mutations that have been studied on a molecular level turn out to reduce the genetic information and not increase it. Information cannot be built up by mutations that all lose information. That is like saying a business can make money losing it a little at a time.”

Another fact that cannot be overlooked is the lack of evidence in the fossil record to support the claims of biological evolution. If all living things evolved from a common ancestor, there would be a variety of multiple species in different stages of transition in the fossil record. Yet, the fossil record confirms that species today are the same as they were millions or billions of years ago when they were fossilized. Furthermore, if biological evolution were true, there would be thousands upon thousands of observable species today in various stages or forms of transition from one species to another—yet there are none.

Not surprisingly, the Bible refuted the false theory of “biological evolution through mutations” hundreds of years in advance. It says in 1 Corinthians 15:39-41, “All flesh is not the same flesh, but there is one flesh of men, and another flesh of beasts, and another flesh of birds, and another of fish. There are also heavenly bodies and earthly bodies, but the glory of the heavenly is one, and the glory of the earthly is another. There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for star differs from star in glory” (NASB).

The Bible also revealed what DNA now proves, which is that each species is its own kind and reproduces after its own kind:

  • It says of vegetation in Genesis 1:11-12, “Then God said, ‘Let the earth sprout vegetation, plants yielding seed, and fruit trees on the earth bearing fruit after their kind with seed in them’; and it was so. The earth brought forth vegetation, plants yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit with seed in them, after their kind; and God saw that it was good” (NASB).

  • It says of marine life and birds in Genesis 1:20-21, “Then God said, ‘Let the waters teem with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the heavens.’ God created the great sea monsters and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind; and God saw that it was good” (NASB).

  • It says of insects and land animals in Genesis 1:24-25, “Then God said, ‘Let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind: cattle and creeping things and beasts of the earth after their kind;’ and it was so. God made the beasts of the earth after their kind, and the cattle after their kind, and everything that creeps on the ground after its kind; and God saw that it was good” (NASB).

  • It says of humanity in Genesis 1:26-31, “Then God said, ‘Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.’ God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. God blessed them; and God said to them, ‘Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth.’ Then God said, ‘Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree which has fruit yielding seed; it shall be food for you; and to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the sky and to every thing that moves on the earth which has life, I have given every green plant for food;’ and it was so. God saw all that He had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day” (NASB).

Therefore, the unbiblical claim that all living things can be traced back to a common ancestor and evolved into what they are through mutations and natural selection is false. Rather, God spoke everything into existence from nothing, as Genesis chapter one repeatedly proclaims. For further information on Creation, click here.

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