Re: Why are Muslims against Evolution?!?
La Parisienne Peace
The Muslims are bound by the belief in Adam (AS) and Eve (AS) … It is not for us to reject what is not provable. And it does not mean what is not provable does not hold the same value to us as something known for sure. Our beliefs much of which are not known for sure hold sometimes more importance to us as people.
Islam caters for this position. We are rewarded not for what we know for sure, we are rewarded for our belief in Him and in His revealed scripture in His Prophet who came as a mercy to us … The moment we get certainty then it is too late - there is no more faith required. However our faith does not tell us to abandon reason and rather if we find something that explains something to us about scripture then this can only strengthen our faith, because then it provides a sense of tangibility to our beliefs. What we look for is not something to contradict our beliefs in Adam and Eve, but something that can help us understand them.
Someone once said to me we can only believe in Islamic scripture 100% because to great extents we preserve them and don’t let them change … However science makes ongoing changes and sometimes even U-turns … so what we should do is hold tight and grab that science that seems to fit and leave it if it doesn’t. Take it with a pinch of salt and abandon the science when the need arises … but never to leave scripture. This means we take it as we find it …