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THE GOLDEN AGE

opment 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 de-
nied that Allah created different living species on Earth separately, for
he claimed that all living beings had a common ancestor and had di-
versified 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 of the 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 re-
viewed 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 liv-
ing species and, if such an evolution really occurred, why traces of it
cannot be observed in the fossil record are some of the questions that
the theory cannot answer. However, first and foremost, we need to
ask: How did this "first cell" originate?
Since the theory of evolution denies creation and any kind of su-
pernatural intervention, it maintains that the "first cell" originated co-
incidentally within the laws of nature, without any design, plan or

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