Do you beleive in Darwinism or Intelligent Design ?

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Re: Do you beleive in Darwinism or Intelligent Design ?

@USResident

I am refering to archeologists and yes anthropologits also play a role, who else would provide the human remains for DNA analysis.

I am not rejecting evolution within a species or as someone else pointed out more accurately, adaptation. However there are no concrete facts about species evolving into other species. There are only concrete assumptions to the theories and they are accepted as fact based on faith in the theory. If this faith would not be extended to the assumptions the theories would have no legs to stand on as you say is the case with religious beliefs. None of the theories can be verified because there exists no framework to recreate them. So in either case, whether it be belief that God created the natural phenomenon which gave rise to this universe and us or that single cell organisms evolved into complex organisms such as us and other living beings, both require an element of faith at its grass roots because you cannot prove either at that level. And it may very well be that we see Gods handy work as evolution based on the time scale that we perceive things though for God it is instantaneous. So for us to achieve certains that God did for us may require millions or billions of years of human effort. Many people are unable fathom God acting as the catalyst power to form the universe. A catalyst which is instantaneous from our perspective. God doesn’t work at human speed or time. If our basic constituents are from this planet, that is quite believable for me because again as a muslim I know Allah created humans from the soil of this earth, which obviously must contain the basic organisms that scientists claim to have evolve into complex organisms as humans. The difference being God has the power to mold those basic ingredients into a complex organism as us instantaneously, we just fail to acknowledge that, thinking that God cannot work faster than nature.

USResident

There exists a better explanation than the one presented above with regards to the nature of Creation and its apparent developmental process.

Firstly, the Qur’an does allude to stages in the establishment of the Universe. Also, this life that we live is said to be a deception. In that we think the knife cuts, the fire burns, we walk etc when in fact it is done by Allah (SWT).

Also, we perceive continuity when we are told this is the act of Divine Sustaining. I would be loathe to claim we are living in a time frame which seems to be like fast forward for Allah (SWT) rather I believe Allah (SWT) pervades both eternity and the infintesimally minute moment between moments.

Just like we perceive motion from animation of many frames flicking past quickly, in the same way we perceive time. Just like each frame has to painted seperately brought to the fore and then taken away in a similar way every moment of our existence is a cascading series of Universe Creation, Destruction and Re-Creation which is equivalent to Sustaining.

What I am saying here is that things may have developmental patterns, but that is because that is how we are supposed to see them.