Re: Why are Muslims against Evolution?!?
Peace kaka_in_usa
You haven’t understood what I have been saying:
Evidence is not proof - I’ll say that again evidence is not proof …
Proof is objective and discrete - evidence can be supporting material it will suggest that something is the case but it cannot show it to be the case with 100% certainty.
Religious texts can be supported with evidence but not necessarily proof except in some small cases … A scientific theory is an unproven idea that something may be happening in a certain way … and there is evidence to support that theory … it will only be called law or scientifically a FACT when it is proven … until that point it remains a theory …
I’m saying that the scientific theory of evolution is not better than my faith in Islam because both provide evidence and neither provide proof - however in the case of my religion I’m not obliged to provide proof because faith is about believing without proof. But evolution I can’t entertain as a fact because it is not proven and every scientific idea that is a theory should be treated like that … only until there is proof - then it can be called fact and then I’ll accept it. Until that point I won’t accept it as fact … For most of this thread I have not even been calling evolution a valid scientific theory because it is phrased like a religious belief … a good scientific theory needs to be falsifiable - which basically means that it can be tested.
To say something like **there is life after death **is statement of belief because it is not falsifiable we can never know this to be true/factual - but we can believe it to be true.
Likewise we say evolution takes place over many millions of years is such a statement of beleif because we can’t test it since we do not live for millions of years to be able to test it. The fossil record itself is not enough to pinpoint the process of evolution - it could just as easily be different animals that came and went without origin from other life forms. To prove that it did we would have to have to chain of pregnant fossils spanning the duriation of one evolutionary jump and determine that each embryo is genetically equivalent to the mother of the next specimen … this can only be done for a few hundred years older than this we lose genetic information and older than that i.e. true fossils are no different to rock and mud in make up because their organic structure has become inorganic through time. So just like life after death there is no way we can PROVE the assertion that one species becomes another and hence even the theory of evolution which is supposed to be scientific in my view resembles more of a belief.
Here is a good scientific theory - every object falls to the ground at the rate of 9.8 metres per second squared, when there is negligible/no drag/resistance from the air and when it’s mass is insignificant compared to the mass of the Earth. This can be tested.