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Creator. It would take a series of discoveries made in the 20th
century to show his theory to be wrong, completely irrational
and illogical.
In a few scientific circles, Darwinism is still a widespread
obsession, but this does not preclude the knowledge that its
days have come to an end. All the scientific suppositions that
once supported the theory have crumbled, one by one. The
only reason why Darwinism is still alive is because in some
scientific circles, a few fanatics still passionately espouse the
materialist philosophy it's based on. The world of Darwinism
resembles the Soviet Union in the second half of the 1980s,
when the Communist ideology had collapsed and its supposi-
tions had been proved wrong, but the institutions of the com-
munist system remained in existence. The generations who
had been brainwashed by communist ideology still espoused
it blindly. Because of their dogmatism, the Communist system
that for all practical purposes had collapsed was kept alive for
a while longer. It was hoped that policies such as Glasnost and Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)
Perestroika could reform and revive it. Yet the inevitable col-
lapse eventually took place.
Long before this collapse, however, some perceived that
communism was basically exhausted. Many Western ob-
servers wrote that the Soviet establishment could do no more
than slow down the inevitable collapse for a little while.
In this book, we describe how Darwinism, too, has long
been defunct from the scientific point of view. It convinced
some individuals for a while, but it finally became clear that it
never had any real scientific foundation. The claims used in
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