Re: Apologetic Islamic take on Evolution … Or unkind dismissal?
Some things, particularly those concepts that were beyond the understanding of the Arabs had to be symbolic for thm to understand. Other concepts can be more straightforward, such as God being the Creator of all things. The details of that creation are what is up for debate. So if we agree that God created, the question is at what level. Evidence tels us that evolution was the mechanism of creation here on earth. God may have created the spark that ultimately created the earth and humanity, perhaps through divine will. The creation of that original spark does not detract us from the consistancy of biological evolution here on earth, since the creation of the Universe is a seperate issue all together. Our debate was in regards evolution as it pertains to biological organisms here on earth, not the birth of the Universe itself.