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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
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," Charles Darwin
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 diffi-
culties. 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.
3) The fossil record proves the exact opposite of what the theory
suggests.
In this section, we will examine these three basic points in general
outlines:

THE FIRST INSURMOUNTABLE STEP: THE ORIGIN OF LIFE
The theory of evolution posits that all living species evolved from a
single living cell that emerged on the primitive Earth 3.8 billion years
ago. How a single cell could generate millions of complex living species
and, if such an evolution really occurred, why traces of it cannot be ob-
served in the fossil record are some of the questions that the theory can-
not answer. However, first and foremost, we need to ask: How did this
"first cell" originate?