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Harun Yahya - Adnan Oktar

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 under-
standing 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 accumulat-

ed from one generation to another, caused new species to be formed.
For instance, he claimed that giraffes evolved from antelopes; as they
struggled to eat the leaves of high trees, their necks were extended
from generation to generation.
Darwin also gave similar examples. In his book The Origin of
Species, for instance, he said that some bears going into water to find
food transformed themselves in-
to whales over time. 8
However, the laws of inher-

itance discovered by Gregor
Mendel (1822-84) and verified
by the science of genetics, which

French biologist Lamarck put for-
ward a very unreasonable claim that
giraffes evolved from antelopes. In
fact, Allah created giraffes specially
just like all other living things.

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