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Facsimile of the First Edition, Harvard University Press, 1964, p. 184.)
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 traits were passed on to
subsequent generations. Thus, natural selection was left 'alone' and conse-
quently rendered completely ineffective as an evolutionary mechanism.

N 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 selection.
Today, the model that Darwinists espouse, despite their own awareness
of its scientific invalidity, is Neo-Darwinism. The theory maintains that mil-

lions of living species were formed through 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 horrific images that
appeared after the nuclear explosions in Chernobyl, Hiroshima and Nagasaki
LOVE IN THE GOSPEL structures either died or were severely damaged by mutations.
are the exact results brought about by mutations. The organisms with proper

The reason for this is very simple: DNA has a very complex structure,

and random effects can only harm it. The American geneticist B. G. Ran-
ganathan explains this as follows:
First, genuine mutations are very rare in nature. Secondly, most muta-
tions are harmful since they are random, rather than orderly changes in
62 the structure of genes; any random change in a highly ordered system will