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The Natural Selection

Misconception

Natural selection, which Darwin proposed as an
evolutionary mechanism, has in fact no evolutionary
power. Natural selection cannot form new species.

Darwin's book:
The Origin of
Selection… J ust as it is impossible for life to arise on earth by
Species, By Means
of Natural
chance, so is it for species to transform themselves
into other species. For no such power exists in
nature. What we call nature is the sum of
unconscious atoms that make up the soil, rocks, air,
water, and everything else. This lifeless heap of matter
has no power to transform an invertebrate creature
into a fish, then make it climb on land and turn into a
reptile, and then turn it into a bird and make it fly, and
finally make it a human.
Claiming just the opposite, Darwin put forward a
single concept as an "evolutionary mechanism":
Natural Selection. Natural selection centres around the
idea that the strongest creatures that are best fitted to THE EFFECT OF LAMARCK:
When Darwin suggested that "natural
their habitat will survive. For instance, in a deer herd
selection causes species to evolve", he was
threatened by wild animals, those that can run faster inspired by Lamarck's hypothesis about the
"transfer of acquired traits". According to
Lamarck, the necks of giraffes
SELECTION CANNOT FORM A NEW SPECIES extended as they tried to
In nature, weak individuals are eliminated and reach higher branches for food.
replaced by stronger ones. This phenomenon, In the 20th century, however, it
however, does not cause new species to emerge. was revealed that Lamarckism is
Even if wild animals hunt weak and slow-moving a fallacy.
deer for billions of years, deer will never turn into
a different species.