Positive Point Mutations Never Happen
Part 2: Before we get back to the positive point mutation I need to point out that this whole idea comes from the magnificent, must-read book by Lee Spetner. It is a must-have for anyone serious about framing a fantastic set of arguments against evolution. Oddly enough, there is another book with the same title which covers a similar sort of idea on a larger scale. You can grab either of these awesome books from the amazon widget at the bottom of this post.
So where were we?
Freddy the frog.
He needs some eyes to help him with a marital dispute. Yes, that’s just silly, he’s in a fix with or without the eyes. But you may also recall that we were discussing that in order for Freddy to get eyes he needs a whole bunch of changes in his DNA. Those changes in DNA – and again this is from the Wiki – can happen in two ways:
- Spontaneous mutations
- Induced mutations
Spontaneous mutations happen with genetic decay, just like we would expect in a universe ruled by the 2nd law of thermodynamics. And induced mutations come from chemicals, radiation and infection.
Incredible Hulk aside, induced mutations are bad stuff, so no new eyes for Freddy yet.
Spontaneous mutations are described as:
- Tautomerism – incorrect base pairing during replication
- Depurination – Loss of a purine base
- Deamination – changes a normal base to an atypical base
- Slipped strand mispairing – can lead to insertions or deletions.
Not much help, but we have to go with it. Trust me, just a little further.
In the slipped strand category you finally get to point mutations where you can have three results:
- Silent mutations: which code for the same amino acid.
- Missense mutations: which code for a different amino acid.
- Nonsense mutations: which code for a stop and can truncate the protein.
Freddy is in trouble.
It helps a bit that Lilly doesn’t know what fat is, but she still FEELS fat, even if she doesn’t have a brain to think it.
Here's the Point:
Point Mutations happen - No Problem.
The Problem Is: They Are ALL Bad.
In the last full century almost all of the scientific world has been dead set on proving biological evolution – elevating it from theory to law. Which means almost every genetic scientist has been looking for these things. But in over 100 years there has never been a single POSITIVE point mutation ever recorded in nature.
Not ONE
Thousands of species, especially humans, being studied genetically to the tune of billions of dollars and never a single shred of evidence of even one naturally occurring point mutation that added a beneficial, survival boosting, my daddy can whip you daddy, Darwinian evolution benefit to the genetic code of a single species on the planet. In order for these mutations to breed into a population they would need to occur at a pace of at least several per breeding pair. Heck – they at least need to OCCUR AT ALL!
I threw this at a young man a few years ago. He was born and raised in a family of educators, his dad was a biology teacher. He scoffed when I challenged him to find me:
- even ONE documented example
- of a positive point mutation
- that had been scientifically studied.
- A mutation that happened on its own,
- with no prompting from the scientist.
People fiddle with genomes all the time, but all that does is prove that an intelligent being can design a better brand of corn. Corn doesn’t redesign itself, and people can’t turn corn into apple trees or make corn that can talk . . .
Only God Can
So he laughed at my challenge thinking it would take him all of ten minutes web search to bury me in research papers. Days passed, then a week. Near the end of the month he returned triumphantly with a study from Japan concerning the positive point mutations in the evolution of . . .
Rice
I chuckled this time, knowing it was silly before I even read it. First of all, what did the rice evolve from? I knew I was, at best, looking at micro-evolution (which isn’t evolution at all really) and that deep in the report – somewhere – was going to be a cheat.
All evolutionists cheat.
Sure enough, it turns out that the whole study was a COMPUTER SIMULATION. I laugh about it every time I remember it. It cost several hundred thousand dollars, by the way.
Do you get what that means?
It means that in order to study something that doesn’t exist, you have to make it up.
- Humans,
- with God-given intelligence,
- designed a miniature little universe
- with one form of life – rice.
- They didn’t start at the beginning from nothing,
- or even some kind of POOF of previous everything.
- No swirling balls of hot universe flatulence -
- just straight to rice.
Not only that, they controlled how the rice mutated and defined the mutations. Oh, and they just gave the mutation the entire new gene, not bothering to code in the thousands of base pairs. Just a brand new gene for this and that here and there. they also made sure that every mutation bred itself into the population (which doesn’t happen). All in all it was a death stroke to the belief system of this young man.
He didn’t ever recant his belief in evolution. And apparently his dad the science teacher was no help – I got no further rebuttals. But he never laughed at me when I made theological statements again. He went from sniggering at my position to respecting it. And that’s what everyone in the world needs – to respect the fact that God’s word is truth.
John 18:37 (NLT)
“. . . All who love the truth recognize that what I say is true.”
We’re going to do a lot of exploring on this issue of creation vs. evolution here at hungryfortheword, and I want you to join us. Just as Paul says in Colossians 2:2(b) – 4
. . . have complete confidence that they understand God’s mysterious plan, which is Christ himself. In him lie hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. I am telling you this so no one will deceive you with well-crafted arguments.
Without understanding the mysteries of God
- Jesus Christ -
you can have no real wisdom or knowledge.
Armed with the Word of God you cannot be deceived.
wiki pages referenced in this post:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muller%27s_morphs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA
