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CHAPTER 3

IMAGINARY MECHANISMS OF EVOLUTION

he neo-Darwinist model, which we shall take as the mainstream theory of evolution today, argues that

life has evolved through two natural mechanisms: "natural selection" and "mutation". The theory basi-
T cally asserts that natural selection and mutation are two complementary mechanisms. The origin of
evolutionary modifications lies in random mutations that take place in the genetic structures of living things.

The traits brought about by mutations are selected by the mechanism of natural selection, and by this means
living things evolve.
When we look further into this theory, we find that there is no such evolutionary mechanism. Neither nat-
ural selection nor mutations make any contribution at all to the transformation of different species into one an-
other, and the claim that they do is completely unfounded.

Natural Selection

As process of nature, natural selection was familiar to biologists before Darwin, who defined it as a "mech-
anism that keeps species unchanging without being corrupted". Darwin was the first person to put forward the
assertion that this process had evolutionary power and he then erected his entire theory on the foundation of
this assertion. The name he gave to his book indicates that natural selection was the basis of Darwin's theory:
The Origin of Species, by means of Natural Selection...

However since Darwin's time, there has not been a single shred of evidence put forward to show that nat-
ural selection causes living things to evolve. Colin Patterson, the senior paleontologist of the British Museum of
Natural History in London and a prominent evolutionist, stresses that natural selection has never been ob-

served to have the ability to cause things to evolve:
No one has ever produced a species by mechanisms of natural selection. No one has ever got near it and most
of the current argument in neo-Darwinism is about this question. 13
Natural selection holds that those living things that are more suited to the natural conditions of their habi-

tats will prevail by having offspring that will survive, whereas those that are unfit will disappear. For example,
in a deer herd under the threat of wild animals, naturally those that can run faster will survive. That is true. But
no matter how long this process goes on, it will not transform those deer into another living species. The deer

will always remain deer.
When we look at the few incidents the evolutionists have put forth as observed examples of natural selec-
tion, we see that these are nothing but a simple attempt to hoodwink.

"Industrial Melanism"

In 1986 Douglas Futuyma published a book, The Biology of Evolution, which is accepted as one of the sources

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