Do you beleive in Darwinism or Intelligent Design ?

[USResident]

@psyah

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.

Bro Psyah

Yes Akhi I am sure there will be better explanations than what I have written depending on what aspect of a subject we are discussing.

Yes the Quran does allude to 6 periods in which the heavens and earth was created. However we humans are the subjects of that timeline not Allah SWT. However since we are discussing human evolution here there is no reference in the Quran for Adam being created during an interval of time.

3:59 The similitude of Jesus before Allah is as that of adam; He created him from dust, then said to him: “Be”. And he was.

I did not mean to say that Allah SWT experiences time as we do. Though time can be perceived as the progression of frames I do think it would simplistic to put it that way given the concept of predestination. After all a progression of frames would only animate what you want to be seen, no free choice or free will.

I think you might have misunderstood what I was intending to say. Since we as humans experience time it is necessary for us to perceive things along a progression as would be case in evolution of humans (whatever theories exist today) whereas for Allah SWT, the creation of a human is not time dependent however can science provide a framework for testing the tiniest moment in time which could be called an instant. It will always be bounded by a starting and ending point because we do not experience timelessness. This is why science cannot elaborate on ‘be’ as given in the Quran.