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the invalidity of Darwinism and employ the fact of Creation
to account for the origin of life.
We have examined the collapse of the theory of evolu-
tion 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
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 cre-
ated different living species on Earth separately, for he erro-
neously 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 the-
ory failed in the face of many critical questions.
Darwin invested all of his hopes in new scientific dis-
coveries, which he expected to solve these difficulties.
However, contrary to his expectations, scientific findings ex-
panded 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.

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