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PROPHET YUSUF (AS)

verified by the science of genetics that flourished in the twentieth cen-
tury, 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 muta-
tions, 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 numer-
ous 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.
The reason for this is very simple: the DNA has a very com-

plex structure and random effects can only cause harm to 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 exam-

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