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Genetic EntropyRecently we went to a Creation Science Camp, which ran for about 5 days, and had dozens of lectures on an incredible amount of subjects, all related to Creation, Evolution, and Genesis. I used to think that there weren’t any new facts about Creation and Evolution- our Creation science magazine seemed to be producing the same old facts found in different situations. I was bored with Creation Science. After this Creation Science Camp, with all the new information the speakers presented, I’ll never feel that way again! There were about a dozen real Christian scientists speaking at the Camp, all of them took a literal interpretation of Genesis, and the entire Bible. There was a geophysicist, a marine biologist who specialized in genetics, an archaeologist, a geologist, a geneticist, a plant physiologist and a whole lot more. I’m not even sure what all those titles mean! All of these men believed in God and in the Bible without believing in Evolution. One of the speakers was Dr John Sanford, a geneticist who is well-known in genetic engineering circles for his invention of the gene gun. He talked about genetic entropy and a computer program called Mendel’s Accountant. Mendel was a Christian scientist who discovered genetics. Mendel’s Accountant is a computer programme, which creates a graph that shows the rate of harmful mutations that appear in a species over a period of time. Every person has thousands of tiny, unnoticeable mutations. Most of these mutations are actually harmful, and decrease the physical ability of the species. A few mutations are actually beneficial for the species, and make it better equipped to survive, such as a mutation making dogs living in a desert have short hair. Evolutionists believe that given enough time, these beneficial mutations would change an animal into a completely different type of animal. This idea has a fatal flaw. In each new generation, thousands of new genetic mutations (copying mistakes) occur. The great majority of these mutations are harmful for the animal, and decrease it’s general fitness. A few of these new mutations are beneficial for the animal, and increase it’s fitness. But because these new mutations are predominantly harmful, the general fitness of the species gradually decreases with each generation. As time goes on, and more generations appear, each with the old mutations of their ancestors, and thousands of new mutations, the number of bad mutations pile up until the species’ fitness is so low, it eventually becomes extinct. According to Evolution, the number of beneficial mutations in apes increased, and so as the mutations changed the animal, it became better adapted for it’s new surroundings and eventually it evolved into a human. However, Mendel’s Accountant shows that because mutations are predominantly harmful, the animal will not improve into a human, it will decline towards extinction, each generation being less physically fit than the last. This is known as entropy, and it poses a serious problem for evolution. John Sanford said that if we saw Adam and Eve today, who had no harmful mutations at all, we would be amazed. Because of the pile of bad genetic mutations that we have, we are nowhere near the physical perfection that they, or the animals around them, were. Because we have improved our living conditions and diet in comparison to our great-grandfathers, the human race appears to be improving, not declining, but our burden of mutations from over the generations means that we are nowhere near the physical fitness of Adam, or of post-flood patriarchs, as can be seen by their longer life spans, and that in the big picture, the human race is heading downhill along e rest of Creation. A Useful Link: www.creation.com (this website has tons of information, articles and technical articles about Creation and Evolution, check it out!) 11:00 AM - Mar. 16, 2009 - post comment
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