Fact/Fiction 

Evidences

Assumptions

Mutations

Conclusion

To go from a primitive protozoan to a man means one must accumulate a huge amount of additional genetic material.  The genetic code of a primitive protozoan can be typed, single spaced, with one letter representing each nucleic acid, on one side of one page of typing paper.  However, the genetic code of man spelled out in this same way would require the equivalent of twelve sets of Encyclopedia Britannica, single spaced, double-sided.  Such a stack of paper would require 48 feet of library shelves.  Obviously, there has to be some mechanism in place to accumulate this huge amount of additional genetic material.

The Theory of Evolution proposes that the engine to change genetic code and make evolution possible is mutations.  Mutations are errors in the genetic code.  My full-time work as a physician involves treating people with developmental disabilities.  Every day I work with people who have been deformed or irreversibly injured by mutations.  Whether it is the premature frailty and dementia of a person with Down Syndrome (Trisomy 21), or the unrelenting violence of a person with variant  Klinefelter's Syndrome (XXYY), or any other recognized syndrome caused by mutations, I fail to see any advantage mutations give a human.  I have served as a medical missionary in Nigeria, and I failed to see any protection a person with sickle cell anemia has against malaria.  In my experience, children with this disorder appeared to die faster from malaria than normal children.  I know of no human syndrome where an accumulation of extra genetic material is helpful.

The recent successful sequencing of human DNA is a phenomenal scientific accomplishment.  What it shows is an exquisite language composed of some 3 billion genetic letters.  DNA actually stores detailed information for the assembling of proteins in the form of a four-character digital code.  The language is very complex, more complex than any language that man has invented.  At times it takes the input from more than one chromosome to achieve the desired biologic action.  Extraordinarily complex and interdependent genes are what it takes to make a human work.  There is simply no way for this kind of information system to evolve because there are too many critical messages that must be simultaneously available. 

However, evolutionists have eternal faith that a rare mutation might confer some benefit to a species, and given eons of time, a collection of such beneficial mutations could evolve a new and improved species.  If one believes in mechanistic evolution, this is the only way to go from amoeba to man.  However, this is also an unproven assumption, and a remarkable statement of faith.   The complexity of the language of DNA had to be created--it is not random.
 
 

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