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Adnan Oktar
(Harun Yahya)

The scientific collapse of Darwinism
As a pagan doctrine going back as far as ancient Greece, the theory
of evolution was advanced most 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 opposed, in his own eyes, the fact that God cre-
ated different living species on Earth separately, for he erroneously
claimed that all living beings had a common ancestor and had diversi-
fied 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 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 dif-
ficulties. 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
suggests.
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 Earth 3.8 billion years ago, sup-
posed to have happened as a result of coincidences. How a single cell
could generate millions of complex living species and, if such an evo-
lution really occurred, why traces of it cannot be observed in the fossil
record are some of the questions that the theory cannot answer. How-
ever, first and foremost, we need to ask: How did this "first cell" orig-
inate?

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