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generation to generation.
Darwin also gave similar examples. In his book The Origin
of Species, for instance, he said that some bears going into
water to find food transformed themselves into whales over
time. 11
However, 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 leg-
end that acquired traits were passed on to subsequent genera-
tions. Thus, natural selection 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 repli-
cation errors, as the "cause of favorable variations" in addition
to natural mutation.
Today, 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 com-
plex organs of these organisms (e.g., ears, eyes, lungs, and
wings) underwent "mutations," that is, genetic disorders. Yet,
there is an outright scientific fact that totally undermines this
theory: Mutations do not cause living beings to develop; on the
contrary, they are always harmful.
The reason for this is very simple: DNA has a very com-