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THE MIRACLE IN THE SEED


                    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 selec-
                tion 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
                variations" in addition to natural mutation.
                    Today, the model that stands for evolution in the world is Neo-
                Darwinism. The theory maintains that millions of living beings formed
                as a result of a process whereby numerous complex organs of these or-
                ganisms (e.g., ears, eyes, lungs, and wings) underwent "mutations,"
                that is, genetic disorders. Yet, there is an outright scientific fact that to-
                tally undermines this theory: Mutations do not cause living beings to
                develop; on the contrary, they are always harmful.
                    The reason for this is very simple: DNA has a very complex struc-
                ture, and random effects can only harm it. The American geneticist B.
                G. Ranganathan explains this as follows:

                    First, genuine mutations are very rare in nature. Secondly, most mu-
                    tations are harmful since they are random, rather than orderly
                    changes in the structure of genes; any random change in a highly or-
                    dered system will be for the worse, not for the better. For example, if
                    an earthquake were to shake a highly ordered structure such as a
                    building, there would be a random change in the framework of the
                    building which, in all probability, would not be an improvement. 68
                    Not surprisingly, no mutation example, which is useful, that is,
                which is observed to develop the genetic code, has been observed so
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