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Since the beginning of the twentieth century, evolutionary biologists have
sought examples of beneficial mutations by creating mutant flies. But these
efforts have always resulted in sick and deformed creatures. The top picture
shows the head of a normal fruit fly, and the picture on the left shows the
head of a fruit fly with legs coming out of it, the result of mutation.
new species to be formed. For instance, he claimed that giraffes
evolved from antelopes; as they struggled to eat the leaves of
high trees, their necks were extended from generation to genera-
tion.
Darwin also gave similar examples. In his book The Origin of
Species, for instance, he said that some bears going into water to
find food transformed themselves into whales over time. 71
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 mecha-
nism.
Neo-Darwinism and Mutations
In order to find a solution, Darwinists advanced the
"Modern Synthetic Theory," or as it is more commonly known,
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