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Awareness in Animals

In living creatures that are devoid of intellect and reason, there
are some innate "spiritual" qualities that they could not have ac-
quired by their own will. Therefore, there must exist some power
that gives it to them. Neither nature nor the process of natural selec-
tion possess awareness and spiritual qualities, so therefore, they can-
not be these qualities' source. The obvious reality is that all beings
live under the will and control of God. This is why, so often in the
natural world, we witness extremely conscious behavior in unthink-
ing animals that makes us ask, "How can any animal know this?" or
"How could this creature think that?"

2. Invalidating the Claim that Behavior Can Be
Acquired through Natural Selection and Passed
on to the Next Generation
The second of the evolutionists' claims is the behaviors that sur-
viving individuals acquire can be passed on to the future genera-
tions. But this assertion is full of inconsistencies. First of all, even if
animals learn a behavior by means of experience, it's impossible for

them to pass it down to their offspring. The learned behavior belongs
to—and stops with—the animal that acquired it. It's definitely im-
possible to pass on learned behaviors via the gene pool.
Evolutionist Gordon R. Taylor, whom we quoted earlier, dis-
misses some biologists' claim that an organism's behavior can be
passed down to its later offspring:
Biologists assume freely that such inheritance of specific be-
havior patterns is possible, and indeed that it regularly oc-
curs. Thus [the late Theodosius] Dobzhansky [an evolutionist
Professor of Zoology] roundly asserts: 'All bodily structures
and functions, without exception, are products of heredity re-
alized in some sequence of environments. So are all forms of
behavior, without exception.' This simply isn't true and it is
lamentable that a man of Dobzhansky's standing should dog-

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