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Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

quired during their lifetime to the next generation. He asserted
that these traits, which accumulated from one generation to an-

other, caused new species to be formed. For 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 leg-
end that acquired traits were passed on to subsequent genera-
tions. 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 mu-
tations, which are distortions formed in the genes of living

beings due to such external factors as radiation or replication er-
rors, as the "cause of favorable variations" in addition to natural
mutation.
Today, the model that Darwinists espouse, despite their own
awareness of its scientific invalidity, is neo-Darwinism. The the-
ory maintains that millions of living beings formed as a result of
a process whereby numerous complex organs of these organ-
isms (e.g., ears, eyes, lungs, and wings) underwent "mutations,"

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