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As natural selection or differential reproduction is such an important mechanism, you might expect to find a large body of technical literature on the subject, with many detailed studies and observations from the natural world. Regrettably, you will search the world’s scientific libraries in vain for such studies because it turns out that...natural selection cannot be studied in any experimental way. (p. 123) How do we measure or evaluate the fitness of an animal or plant? By its capacity to survive say Darwin- ists. How is “survival” measured? By the number of offspring left. So, fitness means breeding success. But, survival is also measured by breeding success. (p. 123) Tautology Restated, the “survival of the fittest” means: the prolific breeding of the most prolific breeders. Put this way, does natural selection mean anything at all? (p. 123) The modern position, therefore, is that natural selection and the survival of the fittest are no more than empty tautologies, while the struggle for survival plays no important part in evolution. (p. 128) Thus “survival of the fittest,” or “natural selection,” or differential reproduction” sheds no light on the mechanism of evolution and is only another way of saying that some animals survive and prosper while others die out — and observation of limited value. (p. 129) As a theory, natural selection makes no unique predication, but instead is used retrospectively to explain every outcome: and a theory that explains everything this way, explains nothing. (p. 130) The Gene Despite the genetic code taking up so much room (actually a chromosome is only one-hundredth of a millimeter long), some 90 percent of the recording space in the tape library is empty. The genetic instructions which actually cause the manufacture of proteins occupy only 10 percent of the available coding space. Or to be more exact, only 10 percent of the sequences in the chromosome cause anything to be replicated. The function of the other 90 percent of sequences is unknown at present. (p. 155) Mutation Mutation is today interpreted as being a spontaneous change in the sequence of nucleotides composing the DNA molecules contained in the chromosomes or a spontaneous change in the whole chromo- some...These changes can be brought about by radiation, by chemical agents, or simply by copying errors when a cell divides and the DNA double helix separates and replicates itself. (p. 141) Evolution, according to Darwinists, is due basically to copying errors. Although the DNA is astonishing stable from generation to generation, and although reproduction is error free to a far higher degree than the most efficient man-made copying systems, there are occasional mistakes... These copying errors can happen spontaneously, or they can be caused by some outside mutagenic agency such as radiation or highly toxic chemicals, like mustard gas. Ultraviolet light from the sun is mutagenic...X-rays penetrate deep into the human body causing considerable direct cell damage and damaging DNA which will begin to replicate in a faulty way. (p. 156) 179 Appendix B: Book Abstracts Natural Selection Not Able to Be Studied Survival of the Fittest? Copying Errors Atlantis, Alien Visitation, and Genetic Manipulation