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ferent fields as biology, biochemistry and paleontology
recognize the 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 evolu-
tion 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 theory of evolution was advanced extensively
in the nineteenth century. The most important develop-
ment 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 on Theory," the theory failed in the face of
many critical questions.
Darwin invested all of his hopes in new scientific dis-
coveries, 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