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In a herd of deer threatened by predators, those
that can run faster will survive, and thus the herd
will come to be made up of swift and strong ani-
mals. But this mechanism does not cause deer to
evolve and cannot turn them into another species.

Natural selection cannot give rise to a new species.

But please note that no new breed of dog emerges during this

process. One of the two breeds that were already in existence acquired an
advantage through natural selection. It is not the case that as a result of natural
selection long haired dogs appeared where there had not been any before. It is
in any case absolutely impossible for these dogs to turn into another species.

In short, new species and new characteristics do not appear by way of nat-
ural selection, only the probability of survival of an already existing species
changes. Since no new species or characteristics form, it is impossible to speak of
“evolution” taking place as evolutionists claim. To put it another way, no “evolu-

tion” can come about through natural selection. Indeed, Darwin himself admitted as
chromosome much:

... natural selection is incompetent to account for the incipient stages of useful struc-
tures. 8

The well-known British evolutionist and paleontologist Colin Patterson
makes this confession on the subject:

No one has ever produced a species by mechanisms of natural selection. No one has ever

got near it and most of the current argument in neo-Darwinism is about this question. 9
Natural selection is not a mechanism that

produces anything new and thus causes
species to change, nor does it work mira-
cles such as causing a reptile to

gradually turn into a bird. In
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Every mutation affecting
DNA will harm it.

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