MUTANT BREEDING EXPERIMENTS

One final example of claimed evolutionary transitions is the occurrence of mutations. The Ancon sheep, for instance, is a short-legged mutation that has occurred spontaneously in nature. It is considered to be desirable for ranchers because the short-legged mutants cannot jump fence as well. But this mutation is not helpful for the sheep, and the short-legged mutant cannot survive in the wild. Because it cannot run fast, predators catch it easily.

In fact, never has a mutation beneficial to an organism been documented or observed (see Note 10). The short-legged Ancon sheep, for example, is a desirable mutation for the users, for the ranchers, but not for the sheep itself. For evolution to be happening, there must be mutations that add new characteristics that are beneficial for the organism. This is the only way an organism could become more complex, but evolutionary claims of occasional good mutations have not been documented. In fact, repeated attempts over many decades to produce good mutations in fruit flies have totally failed, and fruit flies have never mutated into anything resembling another organism.

We have seen that evolutionary philosophy claims that living things vary without limit, that life can come from dead material, that living things evolve with time, and that transitional forms exist. Scientific observations, rather than supporting these claims of evolution, demonstrate instead the remarkable stability of living things, a stability programmed into life for its preservation by the Creator during the Creation Week.