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HARUN YAHYA

Species, for instance, he said that some bears going
into water to find food transformed them-
selves into whales over time. 194
However, the laws of inheritance dis-
covered by Gregor Mendel (1822-84) and
verified by the science of genetics, which
flourished in the twentieth century, utter-
ly demolished the legend that acquired
traits were passed on to subsequent gen-
erations. Thus, natural selection fell out of
favor as an evolutionary mechanism.

Neo-Darwinism and Mutations Gregor Mendel
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 muta-
tions, 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 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 organisms (e.g., ears, eyes, lungs, and wings) underwent
"mutations," that is, genetic disorders. Yet, there is an outright sci-
entific 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 complex
structure, and random effects can only harm it. The American ge-
neticist B. G. Ranganathan explains this as follows:

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