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'''Lamarckism''' (also known as Larmarkianism) is a school of [[evolution]]ary thought proposed by [[French]] [[biology|biologist]] [[Jean-Baptiste Lamarck]] (Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, Chevalier de Lamarck).<ref name="answersingenesis">[http://www.answersingenesis.org/home/area/cfol/ch2-pangenesis.asp Pangenesis: use and disuse], site www.answersingenesis.org</ref>.

This was one of the first theories that tried to explain the diversity of life based on naturalistic forces; as a scientific theory, it made predictions, and the failure to make accurate predictions make it a falsified scientific theory,<ref>[http://www.springerlink.com/content/x05n5w520g614xt1/ Can the theory of evolution be falsified?], article by Paul A. M. van Dongen and Jo M. H. Vossen</ref>,

Lamarck proposed that [[organism]]s' efforts to [[adapt]] to the [[environment]] can be accumulated and passed on to their offspring. Species evolved when traits acquired during life were passed from one generation to the next. For example, the ancestor of the giraffe was a short-necked herbivor, whose ancestors slowly forced their necks to grow to reach higher and higher trees.<ref name="answersingenesis" />.

This is called, in biology, [[inheritance of acquired characteristics]]. Since no such inheritance has been observed since Lamarck proposed it, this theory was discarded, and replaced by Darwin's [[inheritance of inborn characteristics]], proposed 40 years after Lamarck<ref name="answersingenesis" />.

In his book [[The Origin of Species]], [[Charles Darwin|Darwin]] spoke favorably of the Lamarckian theory of evolution. However , since the publication of Darwin's theory of natural selection and because of the lack of evidence for Lamarckian evolution in macrobiology, most biologists today favor an update of the Darwinian theory of evolution as the explanation for how human was evolved.

Despite all proofs and evidences against Lamarckianism, this theory became the official scientific theory in the [[Soviet Union]], sponsored by russian Russian agronomist [[Trofim Denisovitch Lisenko]], during the reigns of Stalin and Khruchtchev.<ref name="lisenko">[http://www.triplov.com/sacarrao/lysenko.html O Caso Lisenko] by G.F. Sacarrão (in Portuguese)</ref><ref>[http://www.answersingenesis.org/tj/v12/i3/darwin.asp Darwin and the search for an evolutionary mechanism], site www.answersingenesis.org</ref>.

As can be seen below, there has been an uptick in [[macroevolution]]ary [[Lamarckism]] [[pseudoscience]] due to observed [[microevolution]]ary processes /changes seen in organisms related to Lamarckism:

*[httphttps://creation.com/epigenetics-and-darwin Darwin’s Lamarckism vindicated?] by [[Creation Ministries International]]*[httphttps://creation.com/mutations-epigenetics-information Mutations, epigenetics and the question of information] by Creation Ministries International*[http://voxday.blogspot.com/2014/08/lamarck-lives.html Lamarck lives!] by [[Vox Day]] (Anti-[[evolution]]), August 16, 2014*[http://www.theguardian.com/science/2010/mar/19/evolution-darwin-natural-selection-genes-wrong Why everything you've been told about evolution is wrong] by Oliver Burkeman, ''The Guardian'', March 18, 2010 (pro-evolution)*[http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22029461.700-mouse-memory-inheritance-may-revitalise-lamarckism.html Mouse memory inheritance may revitalise Lamarckism], New Scientist, December 4, 2013

However, due to intellectual inertia, the [[Schools and evolutionary evolution|evolutionist indoctrination ]] of students into neo[[Neo-darwinism Darwinism]] (also called the [[Modern evolutionary synthesis]]) and people's natural tendency to resist change, the neo-darwinian school of evolutionary thought is still dominant within the evolutionary biology community (see also: [[Paradigm|Paradigm shift]]). The weight of evidence still supports the biblical [[creation]] model (see also: [[Creation science]]).See also: [[Atheist indoctrination]]

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