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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 enor-
mous 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 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 cre-
ated 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 the-
ory 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, con-
trary 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.

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