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THE MIRACLE IN THE MOSQUITO

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 God creat-
ed 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 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 mecha-
nisms" proposed by the theory have any evolutionary power at all.
3) The fossil record proves the exact opposite of what the the-
ory 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 observed in the fossil record are some of

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