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invalidity of Darwinism and employ the fact of Creation to
account for the origin of life.
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 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 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 differ-
ent 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 critical questions.
Darwin invested all of his hopes in new scientific discov-
eries, 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 mech-
anisms" proposed by the theory have any evolutionary power
at all.