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The Prophet Abraham (pbuh)

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 im-
portance 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 top-
ic 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 an-
cestor 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 crit-
ical 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 theory
suggests.
In this section, we will examine these three basic points in gen-
eral outlines:

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