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and are still continuing to do so. Given the enor-
mous 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 theory of evolution
was advanced extensively in the nine-
teenth century. The most important develop-
ment that made it the top topic of the
Charles Darwin
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 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 crit-
ical questions.
Darwin invested all of his hopes in new sci-

entific discoveries, which he expected to solve
these difficulties. However, contrary to his ex-
pectations, scientific findings expanded the di-
mensions 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 origi-

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