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

However, unquestionably, this mechanism will not cause deer to
evolve and transform themselves into another living species, for in-
stance, 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 differ-
ences or variations occur. 146

Lamarck's Impact

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 biologist 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

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