Brother,
Which rules are you talking about. I showed you different versions of interpretation from Dr. Israr to Zakir Naik, and most of Islamic clergymen having positions in between these extreme versions. First of Islam is the only religion with no concept of formal clergy. It’s us the followers who have turned Islam is cults following personalities. These clergymen have turned us in to sheep following the herds without using the brain.
As far as I am concerned I do not follow any person. I just read different opinions and support the ideas instead of supporting the personalities.
The advancement of science amongst 1.6 billion muslims is dismal. I wanted to send you a paper through a pm but it was too long and pm message has a restriction 7500 words. If you are interested please send me your email address by pm to enable me send this well researched paper which will give you the status of the advancement of sciences amongst muslims and the causes for such a dismal situation. The bottom line is if all the muslim scientist vanish from the face of earth today, the world scientific community will barely notice. Our attitude towards learning, and to question critically are the main reasons for this backwardness..
There is nothing contained in physical existence of life forms which suggests that they have arrived from somewhere. All the elements contained in life forms are domestically found on this planet in abundance.
Having said that there is a possibility that there is something (can be the spirit) which actually does arrive from somewhere, which we can not comprehend with our five senses.
Without going in to a scientific debate with you on the subject I will ask you just one simple question and would like to have if possible a simple answer from you. I am not able to understand your position on the matter.. sometime you fully agree that scriptures are not books of sciences.. and then you start these science theories from scripture. If you agree that these scriptures are not science books, why do you start these science debates from the scriptures?
These are mere speculations.. Neither does the species vanish overnight.. neither do I think Allah is trying to explain you that the animal kingdoms vanish like that/or are replaced in jiffy like you are suggesting. (remember my position is I do not believe there is any science in scriptures)..
I don’t think you fully understand the concept of evolution. It is not something you can do in a lab in few hours..
Again I don’t think you fully understand the concept of evolution. A few hundred years or 2/3000 years is like a nano second in your life compared on geological time scale. This natural selection is a very slow process.. and takes millions/billions of years to execute. Most of the life forms on this planet are still microbes.. but these microbes are also not the same ones which populated the planet some 3 billion years ago when life started here.
When I say that some of the religious people are dishonest about the scriptures.. if they don’t understand anything they would try to twist the words and invent explanations. They have the answer for everything, and if they don’t have the answer they would create one.
**Some of these people find even cure for diseases from the scriptures.
**You are totally misunderstanding what I am trying to say. By no means I am trying to find faults in the scriptures.. I am rather trying to keep them out of these unnecessary discussions which may lead to their criticism, and people may get a chance to criticize them.
I have never seen a scientific discovery made from any of the scriptures.. nor do I think they were meant for this purpose. Scriptures have not contributed in the past to the scientific advancement of human kind.. and be assured they will not in future also..
Having said that, I don’t think scriptures are against any critical thinking in scientific or social terms. It’s the closed minded followers who try to drag these scriptures in every sphere of human behavior.. for which eventually the religion/scriptures are blamed.
As far as evolution is concerned, it’s the best possible explanation human beings have thought so far to explain the changes in life forms on this planet. It may be/may be not entirely true.. it has to be found out through scientific advancement.. Scriptures are not meant to explain evolution, nor they will help you in any way to find out what brings these changes in life form on this planet..