Q: How are mutations evolution’s enemy?

A: Mutations are changes that occur in our genes—our DNA. They are the result of such things as harmful radiation. Evolutionists admit that such changes cause mistakes in our genes. But they claim that sometimes mutations can produce new information. For instance, to change a reptile into a bird—scales to feathers, for example—requires a lot of added new information not previously available in the genes of the reptile.

But Dr. Lee Spetner, formerly of Johns Hopkins University, has spent years searching for that one piece of evidence to show that a mutation can actually increase information. In his book Not By Chance, he said:

But in all the reading I’ve done in the life-sciences literature, I’ve never found a mutation that added information … All point mutations that have been studied on the molecular level turn out to reduce the genetic information and not to increase it.

In other words, real science in the present shows clearly that mutations cause things to lose information. This is exactly what the Bible teaches: because of sin and the curse, everything is running down, not improving.

For more information, see Get Answers: Mutations.

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March 28
Crestwood, Kentucky
Carl Kerby
 
March 30–31
Rapid City, South Dakota
Carl Kerby, Dr. David Menton, Dr. Randy Guliuzza
 
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Rapid City, South Dakota
Carl Kerby, Dr. David Menton
 
April 1–2
Independence, Missouri
Ken Ham
 
April 1–2
North Wilkesboro, North Carolina
Dr. Terry Mortenson
 
April 3
Decatur, Alabama
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