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THE MIRACLE IN THE CELL
the world of science was Charles Darwin's
The Origin of Species, published in 1859.
In this book, he denied that God cre-
ated different living species on
Earth separately, for he claimed
that all living beings had a com-
mon ancestor and had diversified
over time through small changes.
Darwin's theory was not based on
any concrete scientific finding; as he
also accepted, it was just an "assump-
tion." Moreover, as Darwin confessed in
the long chapter of his book titled
Charles Darwin "Difficulties on Theory," the theory failed in
the face of many critical questions.
Darwin invested all of his hopes in new scientific discoveries,
which he expected to solve these difficulties. However, contrary to his
expectations, scientific findings expanded the dimensions of these dif-
ficulties. The defeat of Darwinism in the face of science can be
reviewed under three basic topics:
1) The theory cannot explain how life originated on Earth.
2) No scientific finding shows that the "evolutionary mecha-
nisms" proposed by the theory have any evolutionary power at all.
3) The fossil record proves the exact opposite of what the theory
suggests.
In this section, we will examine these three basic points in gener-
al outlines:

The First Insurmountable Step:
The Origin of Life

The theory of evolution posits that all living species evolved from
a single living cell that emerged on the primitive Earth 3.8 billion years

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