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into an upright position, it could not pass on this habit to its
offspring, and evolution would not occur.
So, why is this Lamarckian idea, discredited for more

than a century, still trying to impose itself on society?
Evolutionists say that these "just-so stories" encapsulate
an actual process of biological evolution. They do not believe
that necessity gives birth to evolution, but that necessity
guides natural selection in a particular direction. They also
believe that it causes the selection of the mutations that will
bring about results in that direction. That is, when they main-

tain that hominoids stood up on two feet, they are actually
saying that it would have been advantageous for them to
stand on two feet. Some stood up straight, with a skeleton
that had mutated at just the right time;
and those that stood up straight
were chosen by natural selection. Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

Lamarck's er ro ne ous the sis was sci en ti fi cally
dis mant led, tho ugh at tempts are still be ing
ma de to fix it in peop le's minds.

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