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174 THE PERFECT DESIGN IN THE UNIVERSE IS NOT BY CHANCE

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

Although this doctrine goes back as far as ancient Greece, the theo-
ry 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 denied that God created different living species on Earth

separately, for he 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 of the 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 expecta-
tions, 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"
proposed by the theory have any evolutionary power at all.
3) The fossil record proves the exact opposite of what the theory sug-

gests.