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Lassalle (1825-64), Marx said: "Darwin's book is very important and serves
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me as a basis in natural science for the class struggle in history." Similarly Mao
Tse Tung, the founder of Chinese communism, openly stated that "The
foundations of Chinese socialism rest on Darwin and the theory of evolution." 17
Thus the intellectual struggle against communism must be aimed at
materialist philosophy and, therefore, the theory of evolution. It is also clear
that the wide acceptance of the theory of evolution in society will further
nourish materialism as well as communism.

The Scientific Collapse of Darwinism
Although this doctrine goes back as far as ancient Greece, the theory 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 Allah 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 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 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 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 answer. However, first
and foremost, we need to ask: How did this "first cell" originate?
Since the theory of evolution denies creation and any kind of supernatural
intervention, it maintains that the "first cell" originated coincidentally within

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