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Death of the Darwinist Dajjal System

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 varia-
tions occur. 178

Lamarck’s Impact
So, how could these "favorable variations"
occur? Darwin tried to answer this question from
the standpoint of the primitive understanding of sci-
ence at that time. According to the French biologist
Chevalier de Lamarck (1744-1829), who lived before
Lamarck
Darwin, living creatures passed on the traits they acquired dur-
ing their lifetime to the next generation.
He asserted that these traits, which accu-
mulated from one generation to another,
caused new species to be formed. For in-
stance, he claimed that 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 exam-
ples. In his book The Origin of Species, for
instance, he said that some bears going
into water to find food transformed
themselves into whales over time. 179
However, the laws of inheritance
discovered by Gregor Mendel (1822-84)
and verified by the science of genetics,
which flourished in the twentieth centu-
ry, utterly demolished the legend that
acquired traits were passed on to subse-
quent generations. Thus, natural selec-
tion fell out of favor as an evolutionary
mechanism.

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