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THE MIRACLE OF HUMAN CREATION

understood to have, in reality, no evolutionary power.
Darwin based his evolution allegation entirely on the mechanism of
"natural selection". The importance he placed on this mechanism was ev-
ident in the name of his book: The Origin of Species, By Means Of Natural
Selection…
Natural selection holds that those living things that are stronger and
more suited to the natural conditions of their habitats will survive 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 survive. Therefore, the deer herd
will be comprised of faster and stronger individuals. However, unques-
tionably, this mechanism will not cause deer to evolve and transform them-
selves into another living species, for instance, horses.
Therefore, the mechanism of natural selection has no evolutionary
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 differences or
variations occur. 60

Lamarck's Impact
So, how could these "favourable variations" occur? Darwin tried to
answer this question from the standpoint of the primitive understanding
of science in his age. According to the French biologist Lamarck, who
lived before Darwin, living creatures passed on the traits they acquired
during their lifetime to the next generation and these traits, accumulating

from one generation to another, caused new species to be formed. For in-
stance, according to Lamarck, 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, and in his book The Origin of
Species, for instance, said that some bears going into water to find food
transformed themselves into whales over time. 61
However, the laws of inheritance discovered by Mendel and verified

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