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PORTENTS AND FEATURES OF THE MAHDI'S COMING
It is extreme ly improb a ble that pro teins and nucle ic
acids, both of which are struc tur al ly com plex, arose
spon ta ne ous ly in the same place at the same time.
Yet it also seems impos si ble to have one with out the
other. And so, at first glance, one might have to con -
clude that life could never, in fact, have orig i nat ed
by chem i cal means. 6
No doubt, if it is impos si ble for life to have orig i nat -
ed from nat u ral caus es, then it has to be accept ed that
life was "cre at ed" in a super nat u ral way. This fact
explic it ly inval i dates the the o ry of evo lu tion, whose main
pur pose is to deny cre a tion.
Imaginary Mechanism of Evolution
The sec ond impor tant point that negates Darwin's
the o ry is that both con cepts put for ward by the the o ry
as "evo lu tion a ry mech a nisms" were under stood to
have, in real i ty, no evo lu tion a ry power.
Darwin based his evo lu tion alle ga tion entire ly on the
mech a nism of "nat u ral selec tion." The impor tance he
placed on this mech a nism was evi dent in the name of
his book: The Origin of Species, By Means of Natural
Selection…
Natural selec tion holds that those liv ing things that
are strong er and more suit ed to the nat u ral con di tions
of their hab i tats will sur vive in the strug gle for life. For
exam ple, in a deer herd under the threat of attack by
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