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A DEFINITIVE REPLY
                                       TO EVOLUTIONIST
                                         PROPAGANDA


               necks of giraffes wishing to reach up into the tops of trees grew
               longer.
                   Lamarckism based this claim on the thesis of "inheritance of ac-
               quired traits." In other words, the giraffe which had tried to reach
               up to trees' highest levels throughout its life should be able to hand
               this characteristic on to its young. Yet, with the discovery of the
               laws of genetics, it was seen that acquired traits could not actually
               be inherited at all.
                   As a result, Lamarckism had been invalidated by science by the
               beginning of the twentieth century. Yet, evolutionists continued to
               put forward Lamarckian views between the lines. While fiercely
               criticizing Lamarckism on the one hand, their scenarios regarding
               the origins of living things still bore powerful traces of it. The myth
               of front legs' remaining free in order to make tools, making man a
               bipedal (two-footed) creature, the claim that Neanderthal man













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