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THE EVOLUTION MISCONCEPTION

However, the laws of inheritance discovered by Mendel and veri-
fied by the science of genetics that flourished in the 20th century, ut-
terly demolished the legend that acquired traits were passed on to
subsequent generations. Thus, natural selection fell out of favour 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 1930's. Neo-Darwinism added muta-
tions, which are distortions formed in the genes of living beings
because of external factors such as radiation or replication errors, as
the "cause of favourable 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 pres-
ent on the earth formed as a result of a process whereby numerous
complex organs of these organisms such as the 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 develop; on the contrary, they
always cause harm to them.
The reason for this is very simple: the DNA has a very complex
structure and random effects can only cause harm to it. American ge-
neticist B. G. Ranganathan explains this as follows:
First, genuine mutations are very rare in nature. Secondly, most muta-
tions 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 prob-
ability, would not be an improvement. 10