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                              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 impor-
             tance 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 centu-
             ry. 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 opposed, in his own eyes, the fact
             that Allah created different living species on Earth separately, for he
             erroneously claimed that all living beings had a common ancestor
             and had diversified over time through small changes. Darwin's the-
             ory 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 on Theo-
             ry," 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 reviewed under three basic topics:
               1) The theory cannot explain how life originated on Earth.

               2) No scientific finding shows that the "evolutionary mechanisms" pro-
             posed 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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