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Harun Yahya
(Adnan Oktar)

for instance, he said that some bears going into water to find food trans-
formed 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 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 1930s. Neo-Darwinism added mutations, which are dis-
tortions 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 Darwinists espouse, despite their own
awareness of its scientific invalidity, is neo-Darwinism. The theory
maintains that millions of living beings formed 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 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 struc-
ture, and random effects can only harm it. The American geneticist 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 orderly changes in the
structure of genes; any random change in a highly ordered system will be

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