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

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 habi-
tats 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 com-
prised of faster and stronger individuals. However, unquestion-
ably, this mechanism will not cause deer to evolve and trans-
form themselves into another living species, for instance, horses.
Therefore, the mechanism of natural selection has no evo-
lutionary 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 dif-
ferences or variations occur. 79

Lamarck's Impact
So, how could these "favorable variations" occur? Darwin
tried to answer this question from the standpoint of the primi-
tive understanding of science at that time. According to the
French biologist Chevalier de Lamarck (1744-1829), who lived

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