Re: Approx size of Hazrat Adam A.S
During the time of the dinosaurs it wasn't just the dinosaurs that were larger. Other animals were larger too, plants and insects also.
There IS evidence for this. How would you explain their size? A reduced gravity earth would explain their size.
There is also evidence of larger humans in earlier times, people have found larger graves containing giant humans.
It's not a ridiculous idea, nor is it nonsense.
I'm not a geologist and I understand the tectonic plate theory but this theory of an expanding earth has validity.
Also about Hazrat Adam (AS) size: Read the following excerpt from the English section of the September 2001 issue of the Hebrew-English Israeli popular science journal "Ha-Mada Ha-Yisraeli B'Angleet V'Ivreet." Then read the comments below.
TEL AVIV, ISRAEL - At the recent Israeli colloquium on science and religion, Dr. Shlomi Lesser of Hebrew University, and the Chairman of the Hofesh V'Mada Society (a stalwart for deeply skeptical Israeli scientists), led a heated debate between biologists and ultra-orthodox Rabbis on the origins of life. Many of the spectators, including those of a deeply religious stance, came away with the feeling that the Rabbis had not done very well against their "Epicurean" counterparts.
The hi-light of the evening came when Dr. Lesser engaged in a one-on-one question exchange with Rabbi Dovid Brown of Yeshiva University. At one point Dr. Lesser asked R. Brown how tall the first man was, to which the esteemed Rabbi replied "he was roughly the size of an average man according to chazal [Jewish sages]." From there Dr. Lesser revealed that genetic research has revealed that the human race coming from a single pair of parents is impossible in light of the biological bottle-neck [a term for the strain put on successive generations by inbreeding] they would have to travel through.
"Our research, in conjunction with the research of other respected institutions around the world, has demonstrated that the entire human population descending from a single pair of human ancestors is highly unlikely." stated Dr. Lesser. "It would seem that the traditional view of groups, not individuals, evolving has been corroborated; the only way man could descend from a single pair (rather than from an entire group of transitional hominids) is if the original pair were literally giants in the pre-nutrition age."
As Dr. Lesser pointed out, prior to the breakthroughs in nutrition that took place in the 17th and 18th centuries, genetic evidence revealed that man would have been shrinking if he came from a single human ancestor. His calculations revealed that in order for the human race to reach the state it was in during the 17th century, the "Adam and Eve" story would only be plausible if the first man was 90 feet tall (which is fantastic to say the least). "There is no other way man could traverse the genetic bottleneck" Dr. Lesser again said. "If Adam was the size of any other man according to the learned Rabbis of the Jewish religion, this demonstrates an obvious absurdity to this myth."
I'm not trying to force my views down anyone's throat. What is written in Sahih hadith and Quran I believe. And Hadith mentions that Hazrat Adam (AS) was 90 feet tall. I don't need evidence to believe this. In the Quran it says the Earth was expanded and made bigger. I believe it. I don't need evidence for it.
And theories are proven and disproven then later proven again throughout history.
If evolution was proven to be true in the future that wouldn't shake my belief in Allah and the Quran. The reason would be because Allah has not told us everything. We do not know the full story about anything. Only Allah knows that and He has told us enough to be satisfied. The rest is faith and trust in Allah.
Hope everyone has a good day. Salaam to all
this is absolutely untrue. it is so easy to mislead those that will buy into any falsehood that is presented under the guise of religious dogma.