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The Evolution Deception





            Means Of Natural Selection
                     Natural selection holds that those living things that are
            stronger and more suited to the natural conditions of their habitats
            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 sur-
            vive. 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 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 differ-
                  ences or variations occur. 8


                     LAMARCK'S IMPACT
                     So, how could these "favourable variations" occur? Darwin
            tried to answer this question from the standpoint of the primitive un-

            derstanding 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, gi-
            raffes 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. 9
                     However, the laws of inheritance discovered by Mendel and






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