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               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
               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.
                   In this section, we will examine these three basic points in general
               outlines:


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                   The theory of evolution posits that all living species evolved from
               a single living cell that emerged on the primitive Earth 3.8 billion years
               ago. How a single cell could generate millions of complex living species
               and, if such an evolution really occurred, why traces of it cannot be ob-
               served in the fossil record are some of the questions that the theory can-
               not answer. However, first and foremost, we need to ask: How did this
               "first cell" originate?
                   Since the theory of evolution denies creation and any kind of su-
               pernatural intervention, it maintains that the "first cell" originated coin-
               cidentally within the laws of nature, without any design, plan or ar-
               rangement. According to the theory, inanimate matter must have pro-
               duced a living cell as a result of coincidences. Such a claim, however, is
               inconsistent with the most unassailable rules of biology.
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