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son, we fre quent ly see ex ceed ing ly can be clear ly shown that the most
con scious and as ton ish ing be hav ior won der ful in stincts with which we are
in na ture, in hab it ed by un con scious ac quaint ed, name ly, those of the hive-
en ti ties, of the kind that makes peo - bee and of many ants, could not pos si -
bly have been ac quired by hab it. 114
ple ask. "How does this an i mal
know how to do that?" or "How did If a work ing ant or oth er neu ter in sect
this crea ture ev er think of do ing had been an or di nary an i mal, I should
that?" have un hes i ta ting ly as sumed that all
2. It is im pos si ble for be hav ior its char ac ters had been slow ly ac quired
ac quired through nat u ral se lec tion through nat u ral se lec tion; name ly, by
in di vid u als hav ing been born with
to be trans mit ted ge net i cal ly to sub -
slight prof it a ble mod i fi ca tions, which
se quent gen er a tions.
were in her it ed by the off-spring; and
In the sec ond phase of ev o lu tion -
that these again var ied and again were
ists' claims, be hav ior ac quired
se lect ed, and so on wards. But with the
through nat u ral se lec tion must be
work ing ant we have an in sect dif fer -
ge net i cal ly hand ed on to sub se quent
ing great ly from its par ents, yet ab so -
gen er a tions. However, such claims
lute ly ster ile; so that it could nev er
are full of var i ous in con sist en cies. have trans mit ted suc ces sive ly ac quired
First, , even if an i mals learned be - mod i fi ca tions of struc ture or in stinct
hav ior through ex pe ri ence, it is im - to its prog e ny. It may well be asked
pos si ble for sub se quent ly ac quired how is it pos si ble to rec on cile this case
be hav ior to be passed on ge net i cal ly. with the the o ry of nat u ral se lec tion? 115
Learned be hav ior be longs unique ly
to the an i mal that learned it. It is ab -
so lute ly im pos si ble for any learned
be hav ior to be en cod ed in to a liv ing
thing's genes.
Evolutionists to day are still un a -
ble to re solve that same con tra dic -
tion posed by Darwin 150 years ago:
[I]t would be a se ri ous er ror to sup pose
that the great er num ber of in stincts
have been ac quired by hab it in one gen -
er a tion, and then trans mit ted by in her -
it ance to suc ceed ing gen er a tions. It

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