Evolution in Action: The Lamb with 6 Legs

What a joke!

Evolution in action: This 6-legged leg was born recently as evidence of evolution continues to mount. The lamb inherited the genes from its mother and father, but there must have been added information, because mother and father each only have 4 legs. Seriously, this genetic mutation is like 99.9% of mutations - detrimental to the survival of the creature. The other .01% of mutations are simply neutral, and potentially beneficial only to that one creature. Mutations are never beneficial to the species as a whole. The actual text of the article that accompanied this photo can be seen below. It shows what a disaster this mutation proves to be.

Leggy lamb : Belgian grower Maurice Peeters holds a six-leg lamb a day after its birth. The lamb cannot walk and has to be specially fed. A veterinary surgeon who examined it was reported as saying he would consider amputating the two superfluous legs if it managed to survive beyond a week. (AFP/BELGA/Yorick Jansens)

The lamb cannot walk or eat and is not likely to survive the week. That's evolution in action - a downward spiralling series of disasters. It's completely the opposite of what is needed for the theory of evolution to be valid. If the lamb was born with 2 working wings, then perhaps we might consider it a good mutation. But sheep don't carry genes for wings, so it is impossible for sheep to naturally have wings. Sheep do carry genes for legs, and thus this baby lamb has legs - 6 instead of 4. And that's a bad thing, as the article states.