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The Truth About Evolution
Authors: Jonathan Tooker
https://vixra.org/abs/1602.0132
The purpose of this report is to debunk Darwin's theory of evolution and any variant theory that relies on the natural rate of mutation to explain the origin of new genes. We construct a model of DNA and show that the minimum rate of mutation needed to produce humans within the geological age of the Earth is too high. It is much higher than any realistic model of random mutations. The calculation presented here should end the evolution debate, at least in its Darwinian limit. Other problems with evolution are discussed.

Comments: 13 Pages. 3 figures, 2 tables, less typos

In the paper, I have dismissed the relevance of "coding for a protein" by dismissing it as purely a contemporary fascination. However, under the parameters of the protein coding model, it has been argued that random mutations in the proteins that code the DNA can account for the end product mutated DNA as well as my own model of DNA mutations. Due to the much smaller number of atoms in the coding proteins compared to the DNA molecule itself, one could construct a realistic model of DNA mutation with much lower mega-byte (Mb) quantities than I have used in the tables. Therefore, in that model accounting for variations in the DNA through mutations in the coding proteins rather than the totally simplistic thermodynamic fluctuation model which I have motivated using physics, it might not be possible to immediately reject the theory based on the required inter-generational mutation rate. However, I have no knowledge of any means by which mutations in the coding proteins of a species with N chromosomes can result in a superior species with N+M chromosomes.

I recently watched a video about viruses. It said that sometimes viral genes get into to the DNA "germline" which is the "non-junk" DNA I describe in this paper. Certainly if viral genes are copying themselves into the animal genomes then that represents an effect unaccounted for in this paper. Those viral genes will certainly increase the rate of appearance of new genes in the genome. However, viral genes still do not quite make a convincing case for the appearance of entire new fitness improving chomosomes containing thousands of genes each.