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stated by a large number of scientists. In the United States in
particular, many scientists from such different fields as biology,
biochemistry and paleontology recognize the invalidity of
Darwinism and employ the fact of Creation to account for the
origin of life.
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

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
topic 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 ancestor and had diversified over time through small
changes. Darwin's theory was not based on any concrete scien- 151
tific 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 theo-
ry failed in the face of many criti-
cal 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
Charles Darwin's book The Origin
of Species published in 1859.

HARUN YAHYA (ADNAN OKTAR)