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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 demol-
ished the legend that acquired traits were passed on to sub-
sequent 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 1930’s. 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 liv-
ing beings formed as a result of a process whereby numer-
ous complex organs of these organisms (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 develop; on the contrary, they are always harmful.
The reason for this is very simple: DNA has a very complex
structure, and random effects can only harm it. The American
geneticist B.G. Ranganathan explains this as follows:
