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Harun Yahya

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 fac-
tors as radiation or replication errors, as the "cause of favorable varia-
tions" 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 totally
undermines this theory: Mutations do not cause living beings to devel-
op; 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 mutations are
harmful since they are random, rather than orderly changes in the structure of
genes; any random change in a highly ordered 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. 145
Not surprisingly, no mutation example, which is useful, that is,

which is observed to develop the genetic code, has been observed so far.
All mutations have proved to be harmful. It was understood that muta-
tion, which is presented as an "evolutionary mechanism," is actually a

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