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The Evolution Misconception

species to be formed. For instance, according to Lamarck,
giraffes evolved from antelopes; as they struggled to eat the
leaves of high trees, their necks were extended from
generation to generation.
Darwin also gave similar examples, and in his book The
Origin of Species, for instance, said that some bears going into
water to find food transformed themselves into whales over

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However, the laws of inheritance discovered by Mendel
and verified by the science of genetics that flourished in the
twentieth century, utterly demolished the legend that
acquired traits were passed on to subsequent 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 because of external factors such
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 present 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