Mutations
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?