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Communist China's Policy of Oppression in East Turkestan

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Lamarck’s Impact<br />

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So, how could these "favorable variations" occur? Darw<strong>in</strong> tried to<br />

answer this question from the standpo<strong>in</strong>t <strong>of</strong> the primitive understand<strong>in</strong>g<br />

<strong>of</strong> science at that time. Accord<strong>in</strong>g to the French biologist Chevalier<br />

de Lamarck (1744-1829), who lived before Darw<strong>in</strong>, liv<strong>in</strong>g creatures<br />

passed on the traits they acquired dur<strong>in</strong>g their lifetime to the next generation.<br />

He asserted that these traits, which accumulated from one gen-<br />

T<br />

he French biologist<br />

Lamarck put forward<br />

the totally irrational<br />

claim that antelopes<br />

turned <strong>in</strong>to giraffes. The<br />

truth is, however, that<br />

Allah specially created<br />

giraffes, <strong>in</strong> the same<br />

way that He did all other<br />

liv<strong>in</strong>g th<strong>in</strong>gs.<br />

<strong>Communist</strong> Ch<strong>in</strong>a’s <strong>Policy</strong><br />

<strong>of</strong> <strong>Oppression</strong> <strong>in</strong> <strong>East</strong> <strong>Turkestan</strong>

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