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110 Origin of Instinct

This the sis im plies that Nature is Professor Cemal Yıldırım, one of
a con scious force able to dis tin guish Turkey's lead ing ev o lu tion ists, ad -
be tween use ful and harm ful be hav - mits that be hav ior such as a moth er's
iors and of mak ing de ci sions. No love for her young can not be ex -
con scious ness or force in na ture is plained by nat u ral se lec tion:
ca pa ble of this dis tinc tion. An an i - Is there any pos si bil i ty of ac count ing
mal it self may de cide what be hav ior for a moth er's love for her young
is use ful, but it can not pass this in - through any "blind" or der [nat u ral se -
sight along through its genes alone. lec tion] not in clud ing a spir it u al el e -
Only an Entity pos sessed of con - ment? It is cer tain ly hard to say that
scious ness and rea son—name ly, the bi ol o gists [at this point Darwinists]
have giv en a sat is fac to ry re ply to
Creator of na ture and the life
this ques tion. 113
form in ques tion—can make
that se lec tion. Since these or -
Darwin him self ad - gan isms, lack ing
mit ted the im pos si bil i - any rea son and
ty of com plex and fore sight, have
ben e fi cial be hav ior a num ber of
be ing ac quired mi rac u lous fea -
through nat u ral se lec - tures; and since
tion, al though he stat - it is not pos si ble
ed that he per sist ed in for them to have
that claim de spite it be - ac quired these
ing non sen si cal: fea tures of their
own will, some pow er
Finally it may not be a log i cal
de duc tion, but to my im ag i na tion it must have be stowed these
is far more sat is fac to ry to look at such fea tures on them. The mech a nism of
in stincts as the young cuck oo eject ing nat u ral se lec tion and na ture it self
its fos ter-broth ers, ants mak ing slaves . has no con scious ness and no such
. . not as spe cial ly en dowed or cre at ed spir it u al fea tures, for which rea son
in stincts, but as small con se quen ces of these can not be the source of the
one gen er al law lead ing to the ad - char ac ter is tics these crea tures pos -
vance ment of all or gan ic be ings—
sess. The ob vi ous truth is this: all liv -
name ly, mul ti ply, vary, let the strong -
ing things ex ist by the will and un -
est live and the weak est die. 112
der the con trol of Allah. For this rea -

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