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In his book Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution, Peter Kropotkin
describes the error into which Darwin and his supporters fell:
The numberless followers of Darwin reduced the notion of strug-
gle for existence to its narrowest limits. They came to conceive the
animal world as a world of perpetual struggle among half-
starved individuals, thirsting for one another's blood… if we take
Huxley… the animal world is on about the same level as a gladia-
tors' show. The creatures are fairly well treated, and set to, fight
hereby the strongest, the swiftest, and the cunningest live to fight
another day… But it may be remarked at once that Huxley's view
of nature had as little claim to be taken as a scientific deduction. 4
An article in the Turkish scientific journal Bilim ve Teknik
(Science and Technology Magazine) admits the error in claiming
that nature is a battleground:
The problem is why living things help one another. According to
Darwin's theory, every organism carries out a struggle to survive
and reproduce. Since helping others would reduce that creature's
odds to survive, evolution in the long term should have elimi-
nated that behavior. It has been observed, however, that living
things can be altruistic. 5
Together, these facts reveal once again that Darwin's theory,
produced under primitive scientific conditions, is filled with errors
and deceptions. A great many branches of science reveal the inva-
lidity of the theory of evolution. Those who support it, supposedly
in the name of science, must not ignore the responsibility they as-
sume in supporting such an unscientific theory, and must abandon
this error at once.

1. T. D. Hall, Ph.D., “Influence of Malthus and Darwin on the European Elite,”
1995, http://www.trufax.org/avoid/manifold.html
2. Ibid.
3. Ibid.
4. Peter Kropotkin, Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution, 1902, Chapter 1;
http://www.spunk.org/library/writers/kropotki/sp001503/ch1.html
5. Bilim ve Teknik (Science and Technology Magazine), No: 190, 4.