Why are Muslims against Evolution?!?

[Theorist]

Re: Why are Muslims against Evolution?!?

@psyah

Peace Theorist Evolution is not science it is a belief system … science is about observing phenomenon - the key issue with evolution is that the phenomenon has never been seen and it will never be seen because of the time scales involved … Thus the question that we believe in God without seeing Him although we see signs of His existence is exactly transferable to the idea of evolution although we cannot see it we see signs of it … Now the difference is that in Islam we are told that we must believe in the unseen. However in evolution this belief is being passed off as science. But it is not science … Science is observed phenomena.As long as it is possible that another explanation can be given to the evidence in the fossil records then it is apparent that the evolution angle is just one possible explanation. Another factor is that I’m weary of the quantities of specimens found. In order for it to make sense to me that the human race evolved from another species then we should see an abundance in that species that is less abundant than its ancestor and in turn its ancestor … in short there should be many many hominid specimens … According to this wiki link … http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_human_evolutionhumans have existed in the current form for 200,000 years … for 300,000 years prior to that another form of humans were around … that means they lived longer on this planet than us … and if that is not enough … Homo Erectus and Neanderthals lived 2, 500,000 years ago and in that time since the first humans they were around for 2,000,000 years … with no change … and hence there must be many specimens of these creatures … but the first hurdle to overcome is were they another species in the first place? I’ve had enough of taking second hand science I want to do it myself … it is about time we do a cross-examination of the data … and methods of determining age of fossils and reviewing the other aspects within the theory as well.

I Am starting to understand what you mean when you say it’s more like a belief system than a scientific theory because we can’t see it happen and can’t run experiments to prove the theory. The problem I see with this line of thinking is that someone like you should not even believe in anything that can’t be seen by your own eyes. Can you see the earth is a sphere? Yes? Why do you believe that since you have never seen it for yourself, you have never measured it yourself? There are million things that you will readily believe because it doesn’t shake the foundation of your faith or go against scripture but you won’t agree with anything we put forth as an evidence of evolution and you never will! In order for me to find an experiment that satisfies your inquiries, I need to know what is it that you are really looking for. What would serve as a satisfactory evidence. I have read most of thE thread and numerous examples have been thrown in but you refuse to budge. The example of cichlids was quite valid in my opinion. I get that you have an issue with fossil records not really showing the actual transition. You can believe an artificial experiment but won’t believe that it can occur naturally. So what is it that will prove to you that evolution is indeed a scientific theory and absolutely nothing like a belief system. If evolution is a faith then more than 90% of the what we know about things we haven’t verified ourselves but we believe the experts who have.