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PROPHET YUSUF (AS)

that different living species on the earth were created separately by
Allah. According to Darwin, all living beings had a common ancestor
and they 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 "assumption." Moreover, as
Darwin confessed in the long chapter of his book titled "Difficulties
of the Theory," the theory failed in the face of many critical ques-
tions.

Darwin invested all his hopes in new scientific discoveries,
which he expected to solve the "Difficulties of the Theory." However,
contrary to his expectations, scientific findings expanded the dimen-
sions of these difficulties.

The defeat of Darwinism in the face of science can be re-
viewed under three basic topics:
1) The theory can by no means explain how life originated
on the earth.

2) There is no scientific finding showing that the "evolu-
tionary mechanisms" proposed by the theory have any evolutionary
power at all.
3) The fossil record proves the exact opposite of the sugges-

tions of the theory of evolution.
In this section, we will examine these three basic points in
general outlines:

THE FIRST INSURMOUNTABLE

STEP: THE ORIGIN OF LIFE

The theory of evolution posits that all living species evolved
from a single living cell that emerged on the primitive earth 3.8 bil-

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