Neo-Darwinism attributes mutations to accidental copying mistakes in replicating the genes; if the genetic error enhances the organism’s survivability, the mutation is selected to propagate. This suggests that the direction of evolutionary advancement is accidental and unpredictable . . . how’s that for a tautology! In response to the perennial questions “How did we get here?” and “Why are we here?” neoDarwinian theory would lead us to believe we evolved through a few billion years of “lucky” genetic accidents. In contrast, Lamarckian theory implies that evolution-producing mutations arise
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