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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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