Page 131 - The Dark Spell of Darwinism

Harun Yahya - Adnan Oktar

to do so. Given the enormous importance of this subject, it will be of great ben-
efit to summarize it here.

The Scientific Collapse of Darwinism
As a pagan doctrine going back as far as an-
cient Greece, the theory of evolution was ad-
vanced 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 sep-
arately, for he erroneously claimed that all living
beings had a common ancestor and had diversi-
fied over time through small changes. Darwin's
Charles Darwin
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 ex-
pected to solve these difficulties. However, contrary to his expectations, scien-
tific 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 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:

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