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HARUN YAHYA (ADNAN OKTAR)

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 enormous

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 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 opposed, in his own eyes, the fact
that Allah created different 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 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.

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