Re: Do you beleive in Darwinism or Intelligent Design ?
Evolution and Intelligent design share a position in that they both assert the gradual development of entities to the formation of other entities.
However, they differ in that Intelligent Design mandates that such intricate processes can only be set in motion by an Intelligent Force - we can call that God.
However, according to Islamic thought these are both grave generalisations and which ever way we have come into existence our perception does not end there. We are required to believe that we the universe is sustained every moment by God. Should even a picosecond of unsustaining take place then the universe will cease to exist. It is as though we are a universe of modelling clay and each frame is a new set built from scratch to create a motion picture. Life and causality is not dissimilar to this. Each split-moment that we are sustained is as good as a new universe being wiped away and replaced exactly as before with slight changes within an insignificant time-frame.
Whether things gradually change or not everything that we perceive is based on the idea that it takes place by itself. But this is the very delusion that we do not see.