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According to natural selection, the fittest living things and those best
able to adapt to their environment survive, while the others die out.
Evolutionists, however, maintain that natural selection evolves living
things and gives rise to new species. The fact is, however, that no such
consequences result from natural selection, and not a single piece of
evidence supports that claim.

Therefore, the mechanism of natural selection has no evolution-
ary 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. 175

Lamarck's Impact
So, how could these "favorable variations" occur? Darwin tried to
answer this question from the standpoint of the primitive understand-
ing of science at that time. According to the French biologist Chevalier
de Lamarck (1744-1829), who lived before Darwin, living creatures

Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)