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Pleasant Words from the Gospel

can run faster will survive.
Therefore, the deer herd will be
comprised of faster and stronger

individuals. However, unques-
tionably, this mechanism will
not cause deer to evolve and
transform themselves into another
living species, for instance, horses.
Therefore, the mechanism of natural
selection has no evolutionary power. Dar-
win was also aware of this fact and had to
state this in his book The Origin of Species:
Natural selection can do nothing

until favourable individual dif-
ferences or variations occur. 7

Lamarck's Impact

So, how could these "fa-
vorable variations" occur?
Darwin tried to answer this
question from the stand-
point of the primitive un-
derstanding of science at

French biologist La-
marck put forward a
very unreasonable cla-
im that giraffes evolved
from antelopes. In fact,
God created giraffes
specially just like all ot-
her living things.

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