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led to eat the leaves of high trees, their necks were extended from gene-

ration 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. 8
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 legend that acquired tra-
its were passed on to subsequent generations. 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 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 awa-
reness of its scientific invalidity, is neo-Darwinism. The theory mainta-
ins that millions of living beings formed as a result of a process whe-

reby numerous complex 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 the-
ory: 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 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 bet-