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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.
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 the primitive Earth 3.8 billion years ago.
How a single cell could generate millions of complex living species and,
if such an evolution really occurred, why traces of it cannot be observed
in the fossil record are some of the questions that the theory cannot an-
swer. However, first and foremost, we need to ask: How did this "first
cell" originate?
Since the theory of evolution ignorantly denies Creation, it main-
tains that the "first cell" originated as a product of blind coincidences
within the laws of nature, without any plan or arrangement. According
to the theory, inanimate matter must have produced a living cell as a re-
sult of coincidences. Such a claim, however, is inconsistent with the most
unassailable rules of biology.

Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)