The natural selection evolution error
JOHN Catt (Letters, June 7) makes the fundamental error of associating natural selection with evolution.
The clue is in the word ‘selection’ since it is only possible to select from what is already existing.
Thus natural selection might explain the survival of the fittest but it cannot explain the arrival of the fittest, ie. where a creature came from in the first place.
Natural selection is a fine-tuning or culling process; it is not a creative process, hence it cannot possibly produce the uphill progress and increasing complexity required for pondscum to turn into people. Evolutionists know this, which is why they now cite mutations as the mechanism of evolution, but mutations are (overwhelmingly harmful) cor- ruptions of existing genetic information – they do not produce new information.
The ‘simplest’ known organism is the Mycoplasma genitalium ( a parasite which can’t even exist on its own) which has 482 protein-coding genes. This is a total of 580,000 letters of DNA.
Humans have three billion in every nucleus. The amount of information that could be stored in a pinhead’s volume of DNA is equivalent to a pile of paperback books 500 times as high as the distance from Earth to the moon, each with a different, yet specific content.
Even if you were so ignorant of science and had enough blind faith to believe that something like a Mycoplasma genitalium could make itself by random chance, there is still no mecha- nism by which it could gain massive amounts of new genetic information.
Even the enormous jump from a prokaryotic cell to a eukaryotic cell is inconceivable by any kind of gradual or random process.
A child of three can see that a few letters scrawled on a blackboard had to have an intelligent mind behind it, ie the chalk didn’t arrange itself into the shape of a letter. Yet evolutionists claim not to see the obvious incredible intelligence needed for the billions of correctly sequenced letters in DNA, representing the most complex, multilayered, error-correcting, digital code in the entire universe. Craig Roberts