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wild animals, those that can run faster will survive. Therefore, the deer
herd will be comprised of faster and stronger individuals. However,
unquestionably, this mechanism will not cause deer to evolve and
transform themselves 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 variations chance to occur. 40

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
instance, 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. 41
However, the laws of inheritance discovered by Mendel and verified
by the science of genetics that flourished in the 20 th century, utterly
demolished the legend that acquired traits were passed on to subsequent
generations. Thus, natural selection fell out of favour as an evolutionary
mechanism.

Neo-Darwinism and Mutations

In order to find a solution, Darwinists advanced the "Modern
Synthetic Theory", or as it is more commonly known, Neo-Darwinism, at