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Harun Yahya - Adnan Oktar

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 dif-
ferent 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 scientific finding; as he also accepted, it was just an "as-
sumption." 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 diffi-
culties. 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:

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

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