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ETERNITY HAS ALREADY BEGUN

According to natural selection, the strong and those able to adapt to their sur-
roundings survive, while the rest disappear. Evolutionists propose that natural
selection causes living things to evolve and results in new species. However, nat-
ural selection has no such effect and there is not even a single evidence support-
ing the claim that it does.

Natural selection holds that those living things that are stronger
and more suited to the natural conditions of their habitats will sur-
vive in the struggle for life. For example, in a deer herd under the
threat of attack by wild animals, those that can run faster will sur-
vive. Therefore, the deer herd will be comprised of faster and
stronger individuals. However, unquestionably, this mechanism
will not cause deer to evolve and transform themselves into anoth-
er living species, for instance, horses.
Therefore, the mechanism of natural selection has no evolu-
tionary power. Darwin was also aware of this fact and had to state
this in his book The Origin of Species:
Natural selection can do nothing until favourable individual differ-
ences or variations occur. 24

Lamarck's Impact

So, how could these "favorable variations" occur? Darwin tried to
answer this question from the standpoint of the primitive under-
standing of science at that time. According to the French biologist
Chevalier de Lamarck (1744-1829), who lived before Darwin, living

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