Page 261 - Darwin's Dilemma: The Soul

Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

According to natural selection, the fittest living things and those best able to
adapt to their environment survive, while the others die out. Evolutionists,
however, maintain that natural selection evolves living things and gives rise
to new species. The fact is, however, that no such consequences result from
natural selection, and not a single piece of evidence supports that claim.

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So, how could these "favorable variations" occur? Darwin
tried to answer this question from the standpoint of the primitive
understanding of science at that time. According to the French bi-
ologist Chevalier de Lamarck (1744-1829), who lived before
Darwin, living creatures passed on the traits they acquired during
their lifetime to the next generation. He asserted that these traits,
which accumulated 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 transformed themselves into whales over time. 156

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