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PORTENTS AND FEATURES OF THE MAHDI'S COMING

We have exam ined the col lapse of the the o ry of evo -
lu tion and the proofs of cre a tion in great sci en tif ic detail
in many of our works, and are still con tin u ing to do so.
Given the enor mous impor tance of this sub ject, it will be
of great ben e fit to sum ma rize it here.

The Scientific Collapse of Darwinism
Although this doc trine goes back as far as ancient
Greece, the the o ry of evo lu tion was advanced exten -
sive ly in the nine teenth cen tu ry. The most impor tant
devel op ment that made it the top topic of the world of
sci ence was Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species,
pub lished in 1859. In this book, he denied that Allah
cre at ed dif fer ent liv ing spe cies on Earth sep a rate ly, for
he claimed that all liv ing beings had a com mon ances -
tor and had diver si fied over time through small chan -
ges. Darwin's the o ry was not based on any con crete
sci en tif ic find ing; as he also accept ed, it was just an
"assump tion." Moreover, as Darwin con fessed in the
long chap ter of his book titled "Difficulties on Theory,"
the the o ry fail ed in the face of many crit i cal ques tions.
Darwin invest ed all of his hopes in new sci en tif ic dis -
cov er ies, which he expect ed to solve these dif fi cul ties.
However, con tra ry to his expec ta tions, sci en tif ic find -
ings expand ed the dimen sions of these dif fi cul ties. The
defeat of Darwinism in the face of sci ence can be
reviewed under three basic top ics:

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