Apologetic Islamic take on Evolution ... Or unkind dismissal?

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Re: Apologetic Islamic take on Evolution … Or unkind dismissal?

@Med911

In Islam, I think we can both agree, that we acknowledge that ALL humans are descended of Adam.

Yet, Islam only requires that we obey and revere our parents, it does not stipulate that we show the same reverence for and obedience to ALL humanity, although we should respect the sanctity of all human life, care for other humans, and show humanity towards them, just as we would toward animals.

By your logic, since we are not taught to obey and revere all of humanity as we are our parents, we are then not all descended of Adam?

Similarly, even though we are not required to obey and show reverence towards animals, this does not negate our common ancestry.

No is doesn’t … but it raises a few eyebrows … I’m sure there are a whole load more and may be stark problems if we delve a bit deeper.

Consider this hadith:

Abi Musa Al-Shaarai narrated that Prophet Muhammad said: “Allah created Adam from a handful of dust taken from different lands, so the children of Adam have been created according to the composition of the land. Therefore, from mankind we have white, red, black and yellow ones; we have good and evil, ease and sorrow, and what comes in between them.”