"Genetics and evolution have been enemies from the beginning of
both concepts.
Gregor Mendel, the father of genetics, and Charles Darwin, the father of modern evolution, were contemporaries.
At the same time that
Darwin was claiming
that creatures
could change into other creatures,
Mendel was showing that even
individual characteristics remain constant.
While Darwin’s ideas were based on erroneous and untested ideas about inheritance, Mendel’s conclusions were based on careful experimentation.
--Only by ignoring the total implications of modern genetics has it been possible to maintain the fiction of evolution."
CMI
