Re: Atheism
Peace yazdi
Hey Islam is also a belief system … 
…I’m not claiming that my beliefs are scientifically provable either.
But certain things need to be cleared up …
The way a new species arrives on the Earth is indeterminate … Evolution cannot answer it scientifically and neither can religion … The only thing is there are alternative opinions.
I say that it is possible for a creature to be placed in to the Earth in an instant, either as a colony or as a single ancestor that produces its offspring to become a species … This is a belief statement.
Conversely evolution says one species develops from another … This is another statement of belief …
In the case of humans the only person who came from outside were Adam and Eve (pbut), but they were taken from the soil in the first place.
The rest of us are from the Earth anyway as we are born here and we die here.
I don’t believe we necessarily killed every creature that lived here.
It is also true that we have found remains of creatures that lived long ago, but no longer live … It is also true that many creatures that are alive today were not in existence earlier in the history of life on Earth.
For us it can simply be a result of one creature reaching its extinction, by other creatures competing or a natural disaster occurring that leads to one species to die off, other creatures are made and replace them … How they are made is indeterminate.
Evolution says the new creatures come from the ones that previously resembled them …that is a belief statement, just like mine is about creatures being made to die off and replaced with other creatures. Evolutionists like to paint a picture of gradual metamorphosis of one creature to another, which is fine as long as acknowledge it is a belief … Because there are alternate views such as the new arrive old die off theory (belief) …the fact is the latter of these two is demonstable with the red squirrel being replaced with the grey squrriel as just one example.
It is not my belief that all this happened withi. 10,000 normal years … This is not something that my belief allows let alone my scientific understanding … Islam allows for as much time as is evident from scienctific research to still be absolutely true.
Every major reputable institution ??? They are only reputable because of the vast other matters that they pioneer … There are many researchers and scientists that do not declare their disbelief regarding evolution … Or they are merely waiting for it to disprove itself in time … And that is the approach for evolution …
Modern Science in general, but evolution in particular starts from a premise that There is No God/Creator. Using the well known Reductio-Ad-Absurdum principle i.e. at some point in time Science will arrive at a conclusion that will lead to absurdity of their original premise i.e. there is no God/Creator. This will then leave only one Conclusion i.e. There is God/Creator.
The problem with this is … By the time they get to that end …we would already be standing before our Lord …I’m not waiting for that point to be reached. But moreso, my faith utilises other empirical data, such as spiritual and emotional evidence to compound my beliefs towards certainty.