Study in Nature shoots down three basic claims of evolutionary theory

[WilliamDJ (William DeJong)]

@gbrooks9

But of course. There is no such thing as mutations. DNA never changes. And if it does, it immediately kills the creature in which the mutation appears.

And because of the existence of a genetic repair system, there is no way that Horses, Elephants, Giraffes and Whales emerged from the sedimentary layers of rock long after the death of the dinosaurs.

God invented them and just made it look like they evolved… and he made it look like dinosaurs died out long before large mammals ever appeared. Why? Because God is God.

What were you saying about irrational beliefs?

1. Living nature continually adapts to changing circumstances. We agree that evolution exists, including speciation, and including bacteria that start eating nylon or develop resistance against antibiotics.
2. Living nature continually adapts to changing circumstances by the mechanism of recombination of alleles and selection and by gene regulation. Not by the accumulation of irreparable, inheritable, code expanding, advantageous mutations of the DNA. See the article "The Evolutionary Dynamics of Digital and Nucleotide Codes: A Mutation Protection Perspective " in the peer reviewed Open Evolution Journal (Vol.5, p1-4) at: http://benthamopen.com/contents/pdf/TOEVOLJ/TOEVOLJ-5-1.pdf . Please accept the scientific facts.
3. Irreparable mutations are the cause of cancer and hereditary diseases, which cause severe selective disadvantage. They cannot be the motor for improvement, expansion and innovation of the DNA, according Darwin: selective disadvantage will erase these irreparable mutations within a few generations.
4. As an empirical scientist, I have no testable theory of how the DNA and the DNA mutation repair systems have arisen on earth. My answer is: “I don’t know, yet”. This answer is normal and respectable in any branch of science, and should also be respected in the field of biology. This answer is the driver for scientific research and the progress of science. Sticking to a theory that is evidently in contradiction with common sense and Darwin’s basic rule, harms the integrity of science and its progress. Compare sticking to the theory: apples fall upward; this theory is contradicted by empirical facts and by Newton; sticking to it harms the integrity of science and its progress.
5. The theory “God, or a Pink Elephant has created the DNA, and the DNA mutation repair systems” is not falsifiable because it is not testable, as one cannot drag God or a Pink Elephant into a laboratory, and do some tests. Therefore this theory is unscientific. It is a belief. However, it is a rational belief, because every complex structure in our physical reality is the product of a craftsman, an engineer, or an artist; and decays by natural processes.
6. The domains of empirical science and religion should not be confused with one another, as Stephen Jay Gould argued. They must stay separated. When I discuss the mechanisms for adaptation of living nature to changing circumstances, here on the forum scientific evidence, I discuss them as an empirical scientist, bounded by the playing rules of empirical science. My personal beliefs and world view are of none importance in that discussion.
7. Current evolutionary theory has created a Wonderland, where a dysfunctioning mutation repair system and the resulting irreparable mutations of the DNA are no severe selective disadvantage but the motor for innovation and improvement of the DNA. According to the basic rule of Darwin, this theory must be rejected.

ILLUSTRATION 2:
Video Script: Scene at the Service Desk of a Garage

CUSTOMER: “Hi! Did you fix my car yet?”

MECHANIC: "Well, eh… ". [smiles] “I actually gave your car a new treatment!”

CUSTOMER: “What do you mean?”

MECHANIC: “I did not repair the broken oil cooler pipe in the engine of your car, but I added a few other mutations to the engine by pulling some wires and hoses and scattering some sand in it. This will improve its functioning, after some time”.

CUSTOMER: “You are kidding me!”

MECHANIC: “Not at all. I hang around a lot at the scientific evidence forum of Biologos. And there, almost everyone agrees that this is the way to improve things. All evidence points in the same direction. There is remarkable coherence!”

CUSTOMER: [gets red in the face]

MECHANIC: " There is scientific consensus that this is the way things can be improved". [smiles confidently] “I have spent more than one hour to give your engine a thorough treatment. Wait and see. After some time your engine will start to run better and better”.

(illustration1 can be found at: “What is the evidence for evolution?” post #40, March 10, at What is the Evidence for Evolution? - #41 by WilliamDJ