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The Evolution Misconception 347

THE SCIENTIFIC COLLAPSE OF DARWINISM
Although a doctrine going back as far as ancient Greece, the theory
of evolution was advanced extensively in the 19th century. The most
important development that made the theory the top topic of the
world of science was the book by Charles Darwin titled The Origin of
Species published in 1859. In this book, Darwin denied that different
living species on the earth were created separately by Allah. Accord-
ing to Darwin, all living beings had a common ancestor and they di-
versified 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 con-
fessed in the long chapter of his book titled 'Difficulties of the Theory,'
the theory was failing in the face of many critical questions.
Darwin invested all his hopes in new scientific discoveries, which he
expected to solve the 'Difficulties of the Theory.' However, contrary to
his expectations, scientific findings expanded the dimensions of these
difficulties.
The defeat of Darwinism against science can be reviewed under
three basic topics:
1) The theory can by no means explain how life originated on the
earth.
2) There is no scientific finding showing that the 'evolutionary mech-
anisms' proposed by the theory have any power to evolve at all.
3) The fossil record proves completely the contrary of the sugges-
tions of the theory of evolution.
In this section, we will examine these three basic points in general
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
ago. How a single cell could generate millions of complex living
species and, if such an evolution really occurred, why traces of it can-