Re: Creationists
Again you are showing your ignorance … Adam in places represents the whole of mankind in the Qur’an and this verse in particular is a sign of that … Adam (AS) as the father of mankind represents all of us … It is the belief of orthodox Muslims that the fashioned form of Adam was not the prophet Adam (AS) alone but the whole of mankind held within it’s form.
Stages here can refer to the embryonic stages …
Human races - from Adam (AS) … variation within a species is observable within every living organism … an akita inu can copulate with a chow chow and still have offspring just like a black man can have offspring with a white woman … never have humans in human history become so divergent that we can no longer procreate with one another (evolutionists disagree but either way it cannot be proven or disproven yet)… nor has this been the case with any organism. We can’t call natural variation within a species evidence for the “whole theory of neo-darwinian evolution” - yes the theory is built up using a number of building blocks which in themselves hold water … but when assembled together to paint the overall picture of evolution it falls apart.