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French biologist
Lamarck put for-
ward a very unrea-
sonable claim that
giraffes evolved
from antelopes. In
fact, Allah created
giraffes specially
just like all other
living things.

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 trans-
formed themselves into whales over time. 33
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 fa-
vor 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 distor-
tions formed in the genes of living beings due to such external factors as
radiation or replication errors, as the "cause of favorable variations" in ad-
dition to natural mutation.
Today, the model that Darwinists espouse, despite their own aware-
ness of its scientific invalidity, is neo-Darwinism. The theory maintains

Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)