"Mutations—random changes in the genetic information— are supposed to generate new information so that new features such as legs, feathers, brains, eyes, and so on, could ‘evolve’.
However, random changes in information do not create new meaningful ‘paragraphs’, or ‘chapters’, of information.
--They only corrupt it.
--Mutations destroy; they do not create.
They are known by the diseases they cause in humans (e.g. cancers).
Antibiotic resistance in bacteria is not due to an increase in meaningful information due to mutations. In all mutations studied, there has been a loss of function causing the resistance—for example, loss of control over the production of the enzyme that breaks down penicillin so that much more of this enzyme is produced. Sometimes information has been acquired from another type of bacterium, which then enables the recipient to resist the antibiotic. Mutations will never produce the new complex information needed for evolution to proceed.
Furthermore, research has revealed many examples of features in
living things that are made up of highly complex parts where every part has to be present for it to function at all. They cannot be simpler and still function.
It is not possible for small step-wise mutations and natural selection to create such systems because a series of functional intermediates is impossible.
Examples are the bacterial flagellum, the blood clotting system, the ATPase ‘motor’, the signaling system in cells, the DNA–coded protein synthesis system, etc."
CMI
