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HARUN YAHYA
French biologist Lamarck put forward a very unreasonable claim that giraffes
evolved from antelopes. In fact, God created giraffes specially just like all
other living things.
next generation. He asserted that these traits, which accumulated
from one generation to another, caused new species to be formed. For
instance, he claimed that 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. In his book The Origin of
Species, for instance, he said that some bears going into water to find
food transformed themselves into whales over time. 24
However, the laws of inheritance discovered by Gregor Mendel
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