Why are Muslims against Evolution?!?

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Re: Why are Muslims against Evolution?!?

@el_topo

And breathe.

I don’t know if I even made much sense. Its just that whole entropy argument got me a bit charged. I’m a Ninjaneer so you know I have to take my Thermodynamics seriously. :hinna:

@BarbieCue

Natural selection I never denied but human evolution is something that raises my eyebrows. How do you expect me to believe in something that I don’t understand (and neither do any of the muslim pro-evolutionists)?

Playing the devil’s advocate here… Why would you believe in natural selection and disbelieve in human evolution? How can you pick and choose scientific theory?

@BarbieCue

And I shall say goodbye to this thread with this: This is supposed to be a mature discussion, what’s up with all the sarcastic comments? If you can’t handle other people’s views, you might as well leave instead of dissing them.

I didn’t mean to offend anyone. I’m not picking sides, I’m a Muslim after all. Its just when certain people post without even having a hint of what they’re talking about; mostly to further their circular reasoning. Its bound to agitate you. And I didn’t pick on him, I politely asked him to excuse himself!

@BarbieCue

If this thread has changed anything for me, it would be that I now acknowledge that there may be room for evolution in Islam but we just don’t know clearly, do we?

That’s sorta along the lines that I feel. There is room for evolution in Islam. Infact Muslims were the ones to propose all these hypotheses before anyone else had any inkling. Of course we came after the Greeks (Those guys were on another level).

@princessjojo

Will be back to read GIDSA’s post later.

Its a bit of a rant really and the irony isn’t lost on me. I know here I am saying I have yet to reconcile my religion with science on certain issues while at the same time arguing for both religion and science. So yeah, I know that’s just weird.

There is evidence of ‘macroevolution’ as the term goes. There have been various intermediate fossils found. I’m sure someone might have listed something in this thread. Plus humans possess vestiges that are useful or pronounced in other life forms but pointless in humans. How does that work?

The overwhelming evidence is in favour of evolution and natural selection. The challenge for Muslims is whether we can digest that without abandoning faith and science.