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HARUN YAHYA

behaviour is heritable, what are the units of behaviour which are
passed on – for presumably there are units? No one has suggested an
answer. 60
In saying, “Why a particular type of organism displays the be-
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havior components it does is a result of evolution,” Darwinists lead
the evolutionary scenario to an even greater impasse. According to
them, all seemingly conscious behavior in animals is to be explained
as instincts directed by coincidences. However much you try to ex-
plain this using a different concept such as “instinct,” coincidence es-
sentially expresses an unconscious, random intervention. From the
evolutionists’ perspective, the idea of an instinct making conscious
precautions to ensure animals’ continued existence constitutes a seri-
ous contradiction. As already pointed out, one of the first to confess
the weakness of claims concerning instinct was Charles Darwin him-
self:

... so wonderful an instinct as that of the hive-bee making its cells will
probably have occurred to many readers, as a difficulty sufficient to
overthrow my whole theory. 62

Darwin was also aware that evolution could not explain the con-
scious behaviors he observed in nature. Intelligent logic shows the
truth of this. But a number of evolutionists still try to explain
Darwin’s long-since-discredited theory with meaningless words. In
spite of being an evolutionist, the famous German biologist Hoimar
Von Ditfurth admits that animal behavior is a matter of rational intel-
ligence and consciousness:
… when the behavior we have been describing from the outset is con-
sidered, one is struck by specific criteria regarding the way these are
“regulated by intelligence” in a very special sense. If aiming towards a
particular aim and objective, predicting future events, and calculating
the likely behavior and reactions of living species outside oneself are
not signs of intelligence, then what are they? 63

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