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Darwin’s Dilemma: The Soul

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D Darwinism
Although this doctrine goes
back as far as ancient Greece, the
theory of evolution was advanced
extensively in the nineteenth cen-
tury. The most important devel-
opment that made it the top top-
ic 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 sepa-
rately, for he claimed that all living be-
Charles Darwin
ings had a common ancestor and had diver-
sified 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 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 mecha-
nisms" proposed by the theory have any evolutionary power at
all.
3) The fossil record proves the exact opposite of what the the-
ory suggests.

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