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Harun Yahya - Adnan Oktar

the twentieth century, utterly demolished the legend that acquired
traits were passed on to subsequent generations. Thus, natural selec-
tion fell out of favor as an evolutionary mechanism.

Neo-Darwinism and Mutations
In order to find a solution, Darwinists advanced the "Modern
Synthetic Theory," or as it is more commonly known, Neo-Darwinism,
at the end of the 1930s. Neo-Darwinism added mutations, which are
distortions formed in the genes of living beings due to such external
factors as radiation or replication errors, as the "cause of favorable
variations" in addition to natural mutation.
Today, the model that Darwinists espouse, despite their own
awareness of its scientific invalidity, is neo-Darwinism. The theory
maintains that millions of living beings formed as a result of a process
whereby numerous complex organs of these organisms (e.g., ears,
eyes, lungs, and wings) underwent "mutations," that is, genetic disor-
ders. Yet, there is an outright scientific fact that totally undermines this
theory: Mutations do not cause living beings to develop; on the con-
trary, they are always harmful.
The reason for this is very simple: DNA has a very complex struc-
ture, and random effects can only harm it. The American geneticist B.
G. Ranganathan explains this as follows:
First, genuine mutations are very rare in nature. Secondly, most
mutations are harmful since they are random, rather than orderly
changes in the structure of genes; any random change in a highly
ordered system will be for the worse, not for the better. For exam-
ple, if an earthquake were to shake a highly ordered structure such
as a building, there would be a random change in the framework of
the building which, in all probability, would not be an improve-
ment. 147
Not surprisingly, no mutation example, which is useful, that is,
which is observed to develop the genetic code, has been observed so

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