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tury, 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 ra-
diation or replication errors, as the "cause of favorable varia-

tions" in addition to natural mutation.
Today, the model that Darwinists espouse, despite their
own awareness of its scientific invalidity, is neo-Darwinism.

Accidental mutations develop into defects in humans as well
as other living beings. The Chernobyl disaster is an eye-
opener for the effects of mutations.