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Pleasant Words from the Gospel

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 im-

portance of this subject, it will be of great benefit to summarize it
here.

The Scientific Collapse of Darwinism

Char les Dar win As a pagan doctrine going back as far as ancient
Greece, the theory 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,
published in 1859. In this book, he op-
posed, in his own eyes, the fact that Al-
lah created different living species on

earth separately, for he erroneously
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 "assumption." Moreover,
as Darwin confessed in the long
chapter of his book titled "Difficul-
ties on Theory," the theory failed in
the face of many critical questions.
Darwin invested all of his hopes
in new scientific discoveries, which

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