Re: EVOLUTION VS RELIGION
Peace kashan123999
Of course it’s philosophy … it has not been hijacked - this tool has been utilised as a means to demonstrate the point that science cannot cater for all types of knowledge and it doesn’t claim to do so - so on this basis alone science cannot replace the areas where philosophy/religion dwell.
Regarding the authenticity of the Qur’an - well just look at the current means for determining authenticity of any said subject matter - the tools pioneered by the Muslims are still the best ones around … That is by:
Multliple transmission
Character profiles of narrators
Documented evidence
Now more recently carbon dating of documents …
These are scientific methods used to provide us the best possible means to work out what was said or done in the past … The Qur’an’s transmission is mutawaatir and hence it is demonstrated as being authentic.
Next if you want to pick up the content of the Qur’an you check two other matters:
a) Independent witnesses on the character of RasoolaAllah (SAW) now if arbitrary or neutral people confess to the truthfulness of him, then it can be said that it would be logically unfair for us to conclude that a renowned truthful person would lie.
b) Look for a falsification test - Just like any good scientific theory the best way is to ask the person who poses the hypothesis to give a falsification test that deem it wrong if certain things happen or not.
Like Einsteins falsification test about light being subject to gravity where during an eclipse a star that should be behind the sun should be seen because it’s light would be being drawn around through a lensing effect - the falsification test would be that if the star was not seen then light is not affected by gravity - the test demonstrated that the postulate was not wrong.
Likewise - the Qur’an is bold - it provides its own falsification test - It says “Had it been from other than God therein would be much discrepancy” and “bring a chapter like it …” Since the test remains standing it remains demonstrated that the Qur’an being the Word of God is not wrong.