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ent Greece, was fully set out in the middle of the 19 century. The most
important development which placed the theory on the agenda of the
world of science was the book The Origin of Species, published by Charles
Darwin in 1859. In this book Darwin came out against different species of
living creature in the world being individually created by God. According
to Darwin all species came from a common ancestor and had grown diffe-
rent from each other by small changes over time.
Darwin's theory was based on no solid scientific discovery: as he ac-
cepted himself, it was just a "progression of logic." In fact, as Darwin ad-
mitted in a long section in his book under the heading, "The Difficulties
On Theory," the theory had no answer to a number of important questi-
ons.
Darwin hoped that the difficulties facing his theory would be overco-
me as science developed in time and that new scientific discoveries would
reinforce it. But, in total contrast to Darwin's hopes, the development of
science left the fundamental claims of the theory, one by one, unfounded.
Darwinism's defeat in the face of science can be studied under three
basic headings:
1. The theory is quite unable to explain how life emerged in the
world for the first time.
2. There is no scientific evidence to show that the "evolutionary mec-
hanisms" proposed by the theory really possess any evolutionary effects.
3. The fossil record presents a picture in total opposition to the the-
ory's expectations.
In this section we shall examine the main lines of each heading.
The First Insurmountable Obstacle:
The Origin of Life
The theory of evolution claims that all living species came from one
living cell, which emerged in the primitive world some 3.8 billion years
ago. How it was that one single cell formed millions of complex living
species, and if such a form of evolution did happen, why not traces of it
