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Experts Say

Posted on: Friday, 14 January 2005, 15:00 CST

IN answer to Mr Love's letter, here are some quotes from our leading scientists.

Dr Lee Spetner from Johns Hopkins University: "The Darwin theory is supposed to explain how information of life has been built up by evolution. The essential biological difference between a human and a bacterium is in the information they contain.

The human genome has much more information than does the bacterium genome.

Information cannot be built up by mutations that lose it.

Not even one mutation has been observed that adds a little information to the genome. That surely shows that there are not the millions upon millions of potential mutations the theory demands. The failure to observe even one mutation that adds information is more than just a failure to find support for the theory. It is evidence against the theory." This is also confirmed by Dr Werner Gitt, a director and professor at the German Federal Institute of Physics and Technology, in answering the question "Can new information originate through mutations?""... this idea is central in representations of evolution but mutations can only cause changes in existing information.

There can be no increase in information and, in general, the results are injurious. New blueprints for new functions or new organs cannot arise; mutations cannot be the source of new (creative) information." Bacteria provide evidence against evolution. In a matter of only a few years, bacteria can go through a massive number of generations, equivalent to millions of years, in human terms.The famous French biologist Pierre Grasse, who held the chair of evolution at the Sorbonne for many years, admitted that mutations in bacteria simply showed shifts back and forth around a mean but no net effect.

Overall, he said "Mutations do not produce any kind of evolution." Scott Nicholson Invercargill

Source: Southland Times, The

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