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Natural selection only selects out the disfigured, weak, or unfit individuals of a
species. It cannot produce new species, new genetic information, or new organs.

Therefore, the deer herd will be comprised of faster and stronger indi-
viduals. However, unquestionably, this mechanism will not cause deer
to evolve and transform themselves into another living species, for ins-
tance, horses.
Therefore, the mechanism of natural selection has no evolutio-
nary power. Darwin 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
differences or variations occur. 7

Lamarck’s Impact
So, how could these “favorable variations” occur? Darwin tried to
answer this question from the standpoint of the primitive understan-
ding of science at that time. According to the French biologist
Chevalier de Lamarck (1744-1829), who lived before Darwin, living
creatures passed on the traits they acquired during their lifetime to the
next generation. He asserted that these traits, which accumulated from
one generation to another, caused new species to be formed. For ins-

tance, he claimed that giraffes evolved from antelopes; as they strugg-