Mutations

Modern neo-Darwinian evolutionists explain the origin of new

traits and relationships in terms of mutations, which are random

changes in an organism's genetic code. Mutations certainly do

occur and indeed are responsible for perhaps 1500-2000 hereditary

abnormalities in humans alone.

But could mutations produce the

coordinated set of behavioral adaptations necessary to originate

cleaning symbiosis? The comments of two well known evolutionary

scientists are especially helpful in answering this question.

Nobel laureate Albert Szent-Gyorgi writes the following about a

relationship much simpler than cleaning symbiosis. He is talking

only about a young herring gull pecking at a red spot on its

parent's beak to elicit a food regurgitation response:

"All this may sound very simple, but it involves a

horribly complex underlying nervous mechanism...All this

had to be developed simultaneously [like the cleaner

entering the big fish's mouth at the same time the big

fish suspends his normal habit of eating small fish],

which as a mutation has the probability of zero. I am

unable to approach this problem without supposing an

innate drive in matter to perfect itself."

-Albert Szent-Gyorgi, Drive In Living Matter, vol. 1,

pp. 14-26

Szent-Gyorgi then goes on to coin the term "syntropy", by which

he means some impersonal creative force that drives the

evolutionary process upward.

The point is this: the study of nature itself has forced a

brilliant scientist to postulate the existence of some sort of

unobserved, impersonal creative force. Is it so unreasonable,

then, to infer from our observation of order in nature the

existence of a personal Creator God?