Re: Two sides of same coin
Peace chacha_Ghalib
Subject matter experts in the Islamic sense are used to clarify what we already KNOW to be TRUE. They don’t tell us what is true, but they tell us how to understand it and provide the evidences therein. Likewise, subject matter experts in evolution are not to be approached for what they tell us is true or not, but merely to understand the mechanisms of their theory and how it all works to get a true understanding of it.
For example someone can say “We didn’t come from monkeys” and then clarification comes by saying “No we came from common ancestors” here what is to be understood is that evolutionists do not claim we came from monkeys, but that we came from a common ancestor with monkeys … Knowing this as I do does not mean I should accept the theory now … they keep coming with further and further sophistication of a belief - it does not make it any more sensible or believable until proof can be given for it.
The consequences of accepting evolution will have rippling affects - it will undermine the idea of an actual paradise, it will undermine the idea of Adam (AS) being created and sent to Earth literally. It will undermine the Act of instantaneous creation … these are dangerous ideas for Sunni Muslims …