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Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

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 trans-

formed themselves into whales over time. 45
However, the laws of inheritance discov-
ered by Gregor Mendel (1822-84) and veri-
fied by the science of genetics, which flour-
ished in the twentieth century, utterly de-
molished the legend that acquired
traits were passed on to subsequent

French biologist Lamarck put forward a
very unreasonable claim that gi-
raffes evolved from antelopes. In
fact, God created giraffes spe-
cially just like all other living
things.

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