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prestigious scientist as Huxley was unab- Evolutionists are unable to account
le to escape this error. 9 for the self-sacrificial behavior they en-

In his book Mutual Aid: A Factor in counter in nature. The authors of an ar-
Evolution, dealing with cooperation ticle on the subject in one scientific jour-
among animals, the evolutionist Peter nal reveal this helplessness:
Kropotkin expresses the error into which The question is why do living beings help
Darwin and his followers fell: one another? According to Darwin’s the-
. . . the numberless followers of Darwin ory, every animal is fighting for its own
reduced the notion of struggle for exis- survival and the continuation of its speci-
tence to its narrowest limits. They came es. Helping other creatures would dec-
to conceive the animal world as a world rease its own chances of surviving, and
of perpetual struggle among half-starved therefore, evolution should have elimina-
individuals, thirsting for one another's ted this type of behavior, whereas it is ob-
blood. . . . In fact, if we take Huxley, . . . served that animals can indeed behave
were we not taught by him, in a paper on selflessly. 11
the “Struggle for Existence and its Bea-
Honeybees, for example, will sting to
ring upon Man,” that, “from the point of
death any intruder that attacks their hive.
view of the moralist, the animal world is
By doing this they are actually commit-
on about the same level as a gladiators'
ting suicide. Because since their stings
show. The creatures are fairly well trea-
lodge in the enemy during the stinging
ted, and set to, fight hereby the strongest,
process, a number of their internal organs
the swiftest, and the cunningest live to
fight another day.”. . . But it may be re- are torn out of their bodies. The honeybe-
marked at once that Huxley's view of na- es give up their own lives to ensure the
ture had . . . little claim to be taken as a security of the hive as a whole.
scientific deduction. . . . 10 Despite being a particularly ferocio-

Evolutionist scientists interpreted us reptile, the crocodile displays an asto-
certain features that could clearly be se- nishing gentleness towards its young.
en in nature in order to support the ideo- After they hatch from the eggs, it carries
logy to which they were devoted. The them in its mouth to the water. Subsequ-
war that Darwin imagined to dominate ently, it carries them either in its mouth
all of nature is indeed a great error, be- or on its back until they are old enough
cause the natural world is not full of li- to look after themselves. Whenever the
ving things that fight for their own inte- young crocodiles perceive any danger,
rests alone. Many species are helpful to- they immediately retreat to in their mot-
wards other species and, more impor- hers’ mouth for shelter.
tantly, are even altruistic and self-sacrifi- Yet the crocodile is both exceedingly
cing toward members of their own. ferocious and also devoid of conscience.

Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)