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exist within the scientific community, such as the above mentioned eminent biologist Jean Rostand. In his book, Evolution, written in warn 1 ..are we really as sure as would certainly be the wish of the neo- Darwinians, that the problem of evolution is really solved? The mutations that we are familiar with and which they wish to consider responsible for the coming to being of the whole of life on Earth are not more than organic deprivations, deficiencies and losses of pigments or appendices, or doubling of pre-existing organs. In any case, they never bring anything really new and original to the organic layout, and nothing that we believe might be the beginning of a new organ or the start of a new function. No, decidedly, I cannot admit that these mistakes of heredity could build the whole of the living world in all its richness, its structural delicacies and astonishing adaptations, even with the competitive factor of natural selection and the help of immense durations. Many experiments have been designed in the last decade to understand the mechanisms of mutations, and again the same a 14 One of the pioneers in this field of study was 1946 Nobel prize winner H.J. Muller, who concentrated particularly on the common fruit fly, Drosophila Melanogatser. He concluded that ‘it is so rare that a mutation allows survival that we can consider them as disadvantageous.’ Almost all mutations, including both those occurring in the wild and those provoked in the laboratory, result in hereditary illnesses, deteriorations of survival value and genetic monstrosities. The chromosome plan of living organisms is extremely complex, and any modification will inevitably result in its disorganization. In the laboratory, we have been able to cause hens’ necks and even whole bodies to have no feathers or to change the color of insects’ eyes, wings, posteriors, etc. We have even slightly altered other 328 INTELLIGENT DESIGN: MESSAGE FROM THE DESIGNERS 1960, he wrote: conclusions are reached.