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ROMANTICISM: A WEAPON OF SATAN

Lamarck's Impact
So, how could these "favourable variations" occur? Darwin tried
to answer this question from the standpoint of the primitive
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understanding of science in his age. According to the French biologist
Lamarck, who lived before Darwin, living creatures passed on the
traits they acquired during their lifetime to the next generation and
these traits, accumulating from one generation to another, caused new
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 time. 24
However, the laws of inheritance discovered by Mendel and
verified by the science of genetics that flourished in the 20th century,
utterly demolished the legend that acquired traits were passed on to
subsequent generations. Thus, natural selection fell out of favour 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
favourable 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 cause living beings to develop; on the contrary,
they always cause harm to them.