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The Miracle in the Cell Membrane

was Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species, pub lished in
1859. In this book, he op posed, in his own eyes, the fact
that Allah cre at ed dif fer ent liv ing spe cies on Earth sep a -
rate ly, for he er ro ne ous ly claimed that all liv ing be ings
had a com mon an ces tor and had di ver 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 al so ac cept ed,
it was just an "as sump tion." Moreover, as Darwin con -
fessed in the long chap ter of his book ti tled "Difficulties
on Theory," the the o ry fail ed in the face of many crit i -
cal ques tions.
Darwin in vest ed all of his hopes in new sci en tif ic dis -
cov er ies, which he ex pect ed to solve these dif fi cul ties.
However, con tra ry to his ex pec ta tions, sci en tif ic find ings
ex pand ed the di men sions of these dif fi cul ties. The de feat
of Darwinism in the face of sci ence can be re viewed un -
der three ba sic top ics:
1) The the o ry can not ex plain how life orig i nat ed on
Earth.
2) No sci en tif ic find ing shows that the "ev o lu tion a ry
mech a nisms" pro posed by the the o ry have any ev o lu -
tion a ry pow er at all.
3) The fos sil record proves the ex act op po site of what
the the o ry sug gests.
In this sec tion, we will ex am ine these three ba sic
points in gen er al out lines:

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