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HARUN YAHYA
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 for-
med as a result of a process whereby numerous complex organs of
these organisms (e.g., ears, eyes, lungs, and wings) underwent
"mutations," that is, genetic disorders. Yet, there is an outright sci-
entific 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 ge-
neticist 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 or-
derly 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 buil-
ding which, in all probabi-
lity, would not be an
improvement. 9

Mutations are result of external
effects such as radiation or
chemical action. This mutated
Vietnamese boy is a nuclear
weapon victim.

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