Page 95 - Zeal and Enthusiasm in the Qur'an

Harun Yahya - Adnan Oktar

We have examined the collapse of the theory of evolution and the
proofs of Creation in great scientific detail in many of our works, and
are still continuing to do so. Given the enormous importance of this
subject, it will be of great benefit to summarize it here.

The Scientific Collapse of Darwinism
As a pagan doctrine going back as far as ancient Greece, the the-
ory of evolution was advanced extensively in the nineteenth century.
The most important development that made it the top topic of the
world of science was Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species, pub-
lished in 1859. In this book, he opposed, in his own eyes, the fact that
Allah created different living species on earth separately, for he erro-
neously claimed that all living beings had a common 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 "assumption." Moreover, as Darwin confessed in the long
chapter of his book titled "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
difficulties. The defeat of Darwinism in the face of science can be re-
viewed under three basic topics:
1) The theory cannot explain how life originated on Earth.
2) No scientific finding shows that the "evolutionary mechanisms"
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 general
outlines:

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