Re: Apologetic Islamic take on Evolution … Or unkind dismissal?
Why do you assume GOD WOULD teach the arabs of man creation through evolution? You would argue I’m sure that God wouldn’t leave out something so essential to our understanding of our reality.
Yet I would argue that God has left a HUGE amount of information pertaining to our existence out of the Koran! Why? I can name multiple things God choose not to mention.
But no, you think God would have definently explained Evolution in all its intricacies to the Arabs, even though he completely ignored other equally important things!
The problem with you is that your a literalist, for whom simplistic ideas are the core of your belief. But the Universe is not so simple.
Its ridiculous to the extreme. if this came out a childs mouth I would think it were cute, but i assume you are an adult, and yet you believe people are made out of dust and water?!?! Can you prove it? This is what we call magical thinking.
I don’t know whether I should laugh at you or weap over your staunch and blind belief.
No there is a way to harmonize the two, and its simply to understand that the Koran is not meant to be Science text book. When god says man is made of “dust and water” aka mud, he means we are off this earth. He could refer to the primordial soup from which life sprang.
The lack of a middle ground is only in your mind. Its a lack of flexibility of mind, its this binding off one self to a certain world view which is dangerous. You are desperately clinging to the edges here just to prop up this ideology that you yourself have constructed. You are living in denial and ignornce. Its like the inmates of an asylum telling everyone outside that they are the crazy ones!
Now Evolution is a fact. Its supported by evidence. That it wasn’t mentioned in Koran, I assume is because God wouldn’t explain something that wasn’t relevant to the intention of the message, or wasn’t something he felt the Arabs could grasp at that time, or perhaps he wanted to leave it to prosperity to divulge. But you would assume evidence is all an illusion, that its all a lie.
Atleast we avail ourselves of our mental capacities, you guys are living in perpetual denial of reality.