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The Evolution Deceit

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So, how could these "favourable variations" occur? Darwin
tried to answer this question from the standpoint of the primitive
understanding of science in his age. According to the French
biologist Lamarck, who lived before Darwin, living creatures
passed on the traits they acquired during their lifetime to the next
generation and these traits, accumulating from one generation to
another, caused new species to be formed. For instance, according
to Lamarck, 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, and in his book The Origin
of Species, for instance, said that some bears going into water to
find food transformed themselves into whales over time. 9
However, the laws of inheritance discovered by Mendel and
verified by the science of genetics that flourished in the 20th
century, utterly demolished the legend that acquired traits were
passed on to subsequent generations. Thus, natural selection fell
out of favour as an evolutionary mechanism.

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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 because of external factors such as radiation or replication
errors, as the "cause of favourable 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
present on the earth formed as a result of a process whereby
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