Mutations are accidents; things don't get built by accident
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Claim
Mutations are accidents, and things don't get built by accident.
Source
- Anon, 1985. Life--How Did It Get Here?, Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, Inc., p. 102.
- Morris, Henry M., 1974. Scientific Creationism, Master Books, Arkansas, p. 55.
Responses
- This claim ignores the effects of natural selection. While mutations are accidental and happen without correlation to their usefulness, the rate at which accidental changes are successfully replicated is highly non-random.
- Has anyone ever heard of a genetic algorithm? Here you can build a 2D lego bridge by "accident." [1]
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Fallacies contained in this claim
- Straw Man (theory of evolution doesn't say that mutations do all the work)
- Four Terms ("accident" has two different meanings here)
- Suppressed Evidence (selection is ignored)
- Begging the Question (question presupposes Intelligent Design is true in saying "things don't get built by accident")
External Links
- Mark Isaak's page for this claim [2]
- Max, Edward E., 1999. The Evolution of Improved Fitness By Random Mutation Plus Selection. [3]
- Hodin, Jason. [4]
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See Also
Why is Creationism not a Scientific Theory?
