Why are Muslims against Evolution?!?

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Re: Why are Muslims against Evolution?!?

@Med911

I could give yu a point by point response, but my intention isnt to try to refute Islam or God.

Let me simply state this clearly. You have two beliefs. Both claim to have evidence of their validity.
You claimed to believe your faith is irrefutable and backed up by genuine evidence. Evolution claims the same.
You say you have evidence tp point you in the direction of believing that you faith is a valid truth. Your conclusion is inferred from evidence you provided. This evidence can be interpreted in a multiple number of way, yet you conclude it is evidence to validate you beliefs.
The evidence of Evolution, however, you dismiss. The evidence may be up to par with Islam in your estimation, something I definitely don’t agree with, but leaving that aside, you choose to believe in the validity of your faith, but question Evolution.

Also, you give me evidence, and conclude that this evidence is not proof, but does point in the direction of validating you faith. That means that as far as your concerned, the propnderance of evidence, means there is a high probability, nearly 100 percent probability in your mind, of the truth of your belief. Now I gave you evidence of evolution, I said the same thing, that this evidence is pointing in the direction of validating evolution. That given the preponderance of evidence, there is a very high probability of evolution being fact. To this you became extremely indignant and asked for an exact probability because its apparently your day job. Yet here you are using more or less the same argument, except in this case, the conclusion suits your own ends. Drawing any conclusion based on the solid evidence in the case of evolution is simply conjecture , but concluding that your faith is real based on what you claim is evidence is logical?!?!

Peace Med911

Yes I think you are getting the true picture now … I am doing entirely that … To clarify on a few points … Islam is refutable (as can be seen by the many non-Muslims) but not so using sound thought and logic … the same applies with evolution. We can’t prove or disprove evolution until someone either witnesses “creation” in the making or “evolution” in the making.

However Islam is a belief system and the scripture is guidance and talks of itself as providing signs … it never claims to provide certainty of sight … a good scientific theory on the other hand should do so … at least it needs to be falsifiable … In some aspects Islam does provide this level of assurance - i.e. by providing falsification tests … for example by stating that it is by God, and to demonstrate that no human will be able to come with verses like it. Evolution theorists would never dear to provide us with something on par with that.

Another thing that Islam dominates evolution over is the moral aspect and for me morality is a form of evidence … because I believe in a Creator who has established the law for those who have choice to be one of moral fibre … I can’t see that in evolution, which then undermines the concept of a Creator who I would say is Compassionate and Merciful. Then I have a basis for my belief which is scripture - the nature of scripture itself is miraculous then it provides justification that the content in such miraculous words would be true. However where a theory develops through many years, making many u-turns and behaves very self-sympathetically and apologetically and goes through many persons - top minds in fact - merely to be just another belief - yes - I do expect more from it and evolution does claim to provide more than guidance it aims to be providing the actual answer to our existence without use of metaphor or symbolism it does not appeal to emotion and hence needs to stand its ground - it has to be measurable and testable, whereas Islam does not.