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Allah's Miracles in the Qur'an

ticular, many scientists from such different fields as biology, biochemis-
try and palaeontology recognize the invalidity of Darwinism and
employ the concept of intelligent design to account for the origin of life.
This "intelligent design" is a scientific expression of the fact that Allah
created all living things.
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 enormous importance of this
subject, it will be of great benefit to summarize it here.

The Scientific Collapse of Darwinism
Although this doctrine goes back as far as ancient Greece, the the-
ory 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 denied that Allah created different living spe-
cies on Earth separately, for he claimed that all living beings had a com-
mon 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 "assumption." Moreover, as Darwin confes-
sed 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 dif-
ficulties. 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.

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