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instance, he claimed that 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. 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 traits 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 vari-
ations" in addition to natural mutation.
Today, the model that Darwinists espouse, despite their
own awareness of its scientific invalidity, 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) under-
went "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.