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PORTENTS AND FEATURES OF THE MAHDI'S COMING

Origin of Species, for instance, he said that some bears
going into water to find food trans formed them selves
into whales over time. 8
However, the laws of inher it ance dis cov ered by
Gregor Mendel (1822-84) and ver i fied by the sci ence
of genet ics, which flour ished in the twen ti eth cen tu ry,
utter ly demol ished the leg end that acquired traits were
passed on to sub se quent gen er a tions. Thus, nat u ral
selec tion fell out of favor as an evo lu tion a ry mech a -
nism.

Neo-Darwinism and Mutations
In order to find a solu tion, Darwinists advanced the
"Modern Synthetic Theory," or as it is more com mon -
ly known, Neo-Darwinism, at the end of the 1930s. Neo-
Darwinism added muta tions, which are dis tor tions
formed in the genes of liv ing beings due to such exter -
nal fac tors as radi a tion or rep li ca tion errors, as the
"cause of favor a ble var i a tions" in addi tion to nat u ral
muta tion.
Today, the model that stands for evo lu tion in the
world is Neo-Darwinism. The the o ry main tains that mil -
lions of liv ing beings formed as a result of a proc ess
where by numer ous com plex organs of these organ isms
(e.g., ears, eyes, lungs, and wings) under went "muta -
tions," that is, genet ic dis or ders. Yet, there is an out -
right sci en tif ic fact that total ly under mines this the o ry:

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