Everyone is a mutant

Anyone who has taken a biology course has seen that there is an enormous amount of evidence for evolution, and those who have gone further into a physical anthropology course have seen even more evidence for man’s evolution from apes. Oftentimes even this abundance of evidence is not enough to convince people of evolution, one major argument is “We can’t be chance, we can’t just be a random coincidence.” This comes from the idea that random mutations spur evolution and that consequently the “fittest” are created by complete chance.

Well, even more evidence has been released, and it turns out that there are so many mutations every single generation that change is bound to come and at least one of those changes will be beneficial. Scientists measured the rate of mutation in some plant.

“If you apply our findings to humans, then each of us will have on the order of 60 new mutations that were not present in our parents.” With more than six billion people on our planet, this implies that on average each letter of the human genome is altered in dozens of fellow citizens. “Everything that is genetically possible is being tested in a very short period,”

Essentially, there is so much mutation so quickly that it is not chance that we are the way we are, it is almost inevitable given past environmental circumstances. More ammo for the Creation vs Evolution argument, I suppose.