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The Deception of Evolution

eration. He asserted that these traits, which accumulated from one
generation to another, caused new species to be formed. For instance,
he claimed that giraffes evolved from antelopes; as they struggled to
eat the leaves of high trees, their necks were extended from generation
to generation.
Darwin also gave similar examples. In his book The Origin of

S p e c i e s, for instance, he said that some bears going into water to find
food transformed themselves into whales over time.8
H o w e v e r, the laws of inheritance discovered by Gregor Mendel
(1822-84) and verified by the science of genetics, which flourished in
the twentieth century, utterly demolished the legend that acquire d
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 1930's. 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 vari-
ations" in addition to natural mutation.
To d a y, the model that stands for evolution in the world is Neo-

Darwinism. The theory maintains that millions of living beings formed
as a result of a process whereby numerous complex organs of these or-
ganisms (e.g., ears, eyes, lungs, and wings) underwent "mutations,"
that is, genetic disorders. Yet, there is an outright scientific fact that to-
tally undermines this theory: Mutations do not cause living beings to
develop; on the contrary, they are always harmful.

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