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Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

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

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, pub-
lished 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
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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 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 expecta-
tions, scientific 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 sug-
gests.
In this section, we will examine these three basic points in general
outlines:

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