Darwinists believe that evolution advances primarily via natural selection acting on genetic mutations. The more genetic variation there is, the more room there is for evolutionary advancement. Evidence against the neo-Darwinian synthesis is mounting every day. It is simply not borne out by the data. Here is another case in point.
Alfie Clamp is a two year old boy who has been diagnosed with having an extra strand of DNA on chromosome seven. Did this additional genetic information help Alfie in the struggle for survival? No. It caused him to be born blind, he has to take a cocktail of drugs every day so his body will absorb nutrients from his food, and he has stopped breathing multiple times. It seems as though regular mutations are too few and too slow to produce novel biological change, and large novel mutations are detrimental to an organism. Either way, evolution will not proceed.
Thinking to Believe 
April 16, 2011 at 6:27 am
How would you answer the question of why is their a flaw if the DNA was designed by God?
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April 16, 2011 at 6:43 am
You should know there was only one perfect human on this earth, before, in every way. Jesus Christ himself. All others are subjected to this worlds every changing ways. Trying always to find a flaw in Gods creations is a flaw in itself.
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April 16, 2011 at 9:00 am
Adam and Eve ate the tree.. Everything is now subject to degradation. This is part of the curse on Adam and Eve.
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April 16, 2011 at 9:02 am
Clarify… When I say “this,” I mean damaged DNA.
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April 17, 2011 at 7:48 am
I don’t believe that evolution is said to advance primarily through genetic mutations. Rather, it’s a culmination of observable microevolution over time that results in macroevolution.
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April 18, 2011 at 1:17 pm
cs,
This question is in the same category of why sickness and disease exists. The short answer is that we live in a fallen world. But when it comes to DNA, errors can be made. What’s amazing is that there aren’t more errors than this. One of the things scientists have discovered is that built into our DNA are several “spell checkers” and “error fixers.” If it weren’t for these design elements, our DNA would fall apart relatively quickly.
Jason
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April 18, 2011 at 1:20 pm
Arthur,
While I do not accept the premise that microevolutionary changes add up to macroevolutioary changes (because there is no evidence to support that, and good evidence to contradict it), you still have to explain where the variation comes from to produce microevolutionary changes. While evolutionary biologists recognize that there are different sources for biological variation, mutations remain the primary source.
Jason
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September 20, 2011 at 2:52 am
You can’t simply deduce that because this boy has so many health problems to automatically mean that this type of genetic variation will not, and is not a part of humanity’s evolutionary process. They only even discovered that he had this extra DNA -because- of his health problems. This is not to say that absolutely no one else has this new genetic anomoly. Have you ever had your DNA checked? How about your kid’s? Anyone you know even? Probably not. I know I haven’t. Hell, I even tried to get the dr’s to check my son’s DNA for Fragile X (he has Asperger’s), and they wouldn’t do it… even with all of the predisposed family history symptoms.
My point is that it is not very scientific at all to just assume this is not an evolutionary process without actually testing multiple groups of people.
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October 1, 2011 at 4:58 pm
Given the obvious effects of this additional gene, why would anyone think it is going to help advance humanity? Had it not been for medical technology, natural selection would have weeded him out of the struggle for survival.
Right, it was discovered because he had a health condition, and it is possible that others have additional genes that we have not detected because we have had no reason to check. But just because it is possible does not mean we have any reason to think it is true at this point. Given what we know about genes and gene production, and given what we know regarding the human genome as a result of genome sequencing performed so far, there is no reason to think that humans are regularly being born with extra genes. And even if they were, it would appear to be neutral addition, not something beneficial.
Jason
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