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The Deception of Evolution

Natural selection can do nothing until favourable individual differ-
ences or variations occur. 7

LAMARCK'S IMPACT
So, how could these "favorable variations" occur? Darwin tried to an-
swer this question from the standpoint of the primitive understanding of
science at that time. According to the French biologist Chevalier de
Lamarck (1744-1829), who lived before Darwin, living creatures passed on
the traits they acquired during their lifetime to the next generation. He as-
serted that these traits, which accumulated from one generation to an-
other, caused 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 generation.
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 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 twenti-
eth 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 distor-
tions formed in the genes of living beings due to such external factors as
radiation or replication errors, as the "cause of favorable variations" in ad-
dition to natural mutation.
Today, the model that stands for evolution in the world is Neo-
Darwinism. The theory maintains that millions of living beings formed as

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