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The Deception of Evolution

tionably, this
mechanism will
not cause deer to
evolve and transform
themselves into another liv-
ing species, for instance, horses.

Therefore, the mechanism of natu-
ral 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 individ-
ual differences or variations occur. 7

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So, how could these "favorable variations" occur? Darwin tried to
answer this question from the standpoint of the primitive understand-
ing of science at that time. According to the French biologist
Chevalier de Lamarck (1744-1829), who lived before Darwin, liv-
ing creatures passed on the traits they acquired during their life-
time to the next generation. He asserted that these traits, which
accumulated from one generation to another, caused new spe-
cies to be formed. For instance, 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 examples. 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. 8
However, the laws of inheritance
discovered by Gregor Mendel (1822-
84) and verified by the science of ge-
netics, which flourished in the twen-
tieth century, utterly demolished
the legend that acquired traits were
passed on to subsequent generations.
Thus, natural selection fell out of favor as

an evolutionary mechanism.

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