Question

Assertion: Charles Robert Darwin strongly challenged the ideas of the Special Creation Theory.

Reason: Darwin was influenced by the idea of use and disuse of Lamarck.

• A. Both the assertion and reason are true and the reason is a correct explanation of the assertion
• B. Both assertion and reason are true but the reason is not the correct explanation of the assertion
• C. Assertion is true but the reason is false
• D. Both assertion and reason are false

Answer 1

The correct option is C Assertion is true but the reason is false

The theory of Special Creation has three connotations - all living organisms that we see today were created as such; diversity was always the same since creation, and earth is about 4000 years old. All of these were proved wrong by Darwin based on his observations.

According to Darwin, existing life forms share similarities to varying degrees not only among themselves but also with the life forms that existed millions of years ago. He further stated that new species are created by natural slection. He was influenced by the work of T.R Malthus. He did not agree with the use and disuse theory of Lamarck. So the assertion is true but the reason is false.