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THE EXISTENCE OF ALLAH
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 distortions 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 structure,
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 for the worse, not for the better. For example, if an
earthquake were to shake a highly ordered structure such as a building,
there would be a random change in the framework of the building
which, in all probability, would not be an improvement. 40
Not surprisingly, no mutation example, which is useful, that is, which is
observed to develop the genetic code, has been observed so far. All
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