# False Ideas About Truth - Part 14 - Natural Selection by Dr. Joe L. Mott on June 22, 2026

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References: (1) Random mutations do not occur very OFTEN, and most mutations are DAMAGING to an organism. Yet POSITIVE mutations are NECESSARY to give rise to a surviving new creature. 99% of mutations are DELETERIOUS and 1% have no effect at all. No useful mutation has ever BEEN OBSERVED. (2) I think Darwin may have believed that natural selection effectively had a MIND OF ITS OWN and would ARBITRARILY SELECT which individuals thrive. But natural selection is an UNGUIDED PROCESS. Therefore it is not a CONSCIOUS MECHANISM. It has no consciousness with which to select the best from the mutations that arise. Even IF the most useful structure is selected by natural selection, this state of affairs will still bestow NO NEW STRUCTURE. Fast running antelopes survive while the slower are hunted down by prey. But this process will NEVER TURN antelopes into leopards. (3) It is impossible for natural selection to act according to a PREDESIGNED PLAN. That would be to claim that natural selection is conscious. It’s a GRAVE ERROR to maintain that RANDOM, UNGUIDED EVENTS are actually conscious. But in order to escape the embarrassing effect of their claims of CHANCE, Darwinists try to give the impression and deceive people into thinking that natural selection is CONSCIOUS. (4) Darwinian evolutionists claim that natural selection must plan an organ such as the eye before any such thing exists, know all the properties it must have BEFOREHAND and bring all the requisite stages according to a plan, while NEVER MAKNG AN ERROR. It must do all this until an eye emerges. It must produce a succession of perfect structures, create a BRAIN that sees the image and a consciousness to INTERPRET what it sees. (5) Darwin himself said in chapter VI of On the Origin of Species, “Is it possible that a…

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