Muslim Creationists Gain Ground

[SedesDomi]

Growing up in Pakistan, Salman Hameed navigated freely between his Muslim beliefs and his secular studies. Now, as an assistant professor of integrated science and humanities at Hampshire College in Massachusetts, he teaches about the scientific origins of the universe, including Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution.

But in recent visits to his homeland, Hameed, 38, has discovered a contrary theory rapidly gaining ground: Islamic creationism.

Championed by prolific Turkish author Harun Yahya, this growing movement surprised Western scientists and academics in 2007, when they began receiving unsolicited copies of Yahya’s colorful, 850-page “Atlas of Creation.” In response, Hameed wrote “Bracing for Islamic Creationism” in the December 2008 issue of the journal Science.

 

[Muslim_Woman]

** In the name of Allah , the Most Gracious , Ever Merciful **

Salaam/ Peace

…Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution.

What’s your point here ? To my knowledge , Jews or Christians also don’t beleive in Darwin’s theory . God sent human being in perfect shape .

 

[SedesDomi]

** In the name of Allah , the Most Gracious , Ever Merciful **

Salaam/ Peace

What’s your point here ? To my knowledge , Jews or Christians also don’t beleive in Darwin’s theory . God sent human being in perfect shape .

Many Christians and Jews believe God used evolution in order to create humans.

 

[chrisse]

** In the name of Allah , the Most Gracious , Ever Merciful **

Salaam/ Peace

What’s your point here ? To my knowledge , Jews or Christians also don’t beleive in Darwin’s theory . God sent human being in perfect shape .

As, as your have shown before your knowledge is very limited and usually wrong.

There is no command for us, or Jews, for or against evolution or Darwin’s theory - it is up to the individual.

The Vatican is holding a conference on Faith and Evolution -
catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=14993

Here’s another article - Vatican has problem with evolution only when it becomes an ideology -

catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=15070

(You may be thinking of some non-Catholic Christians )

 

[Eucharisted]

Apart from the blantant ignorance of Christian teachings and of major Christian opinion on evolution, there is one point that stood out:

Educators and scientists should stand up and present it as a fact of science, independent of one’s beliefs. You can always say, if you are a believer, the process either was set forward by God, or the laws of natural selection were decided by God. If evolution gets defined in the context of atheism, a vast majority of the Muslim population may end up rejecting evolution. The key point to make is that Islam and science are compatible.

Muslims aren’t going to like this. Especially the terrorists who use religion for evil, because ignorance is one of their tools for recruiting new terrorists. A lot of mundane Muslims also won’t like education and science, I bet, because it’ll completely destroy Islam. Like the story of the talking ant. Or the mansions of the stars.

 

[Eucharisted]

Q: How does Islamic creationism differ from the traditional Christian views on the issue?

A: **Young-earth creationism – the notion that the earth is 6,000 years old **-- is completely missing in the Muslim world. The Quran is ambiguous – it deals with a six-day creationism, but at one place it said the length of a day may be 10,000 years, at another point it says the length of each day may be 50,000 days. So, Muslims had accepted the scientific answer to the age of the earth, which is in billions of years. There was no conflict with scientists.

The young-earth creationism is just one belief among many in Protestantism. While some Catholics believe in it - since they don’t know the Catholic Church’s teaching on the creation story - the Church dose not teach a literal understanding of Genesis; rather, the Church teaches that the creation story in Genesis is a symbolic story, and that the six days of creation are meant to signify the sacredness of the Sabbath.

The Quran simply doesn’t have creation accounts laid out, as in the book of Genesis. A lot of biblical scholars say Genesis can be interpreted in different ways

Ironically, the creation story in the Qu’ran is based on the Bible. Hence, Adam is in the story, and he is made from dust, earth, clay - whatever you want to call it. A lot of extra details about creation in Islam, given by the commentor Tabari, is taken from Jewish legends.

There are Christians all over the world who reject evolution

No, no there isn’t. Most Christians accept evolution, becuase it is not contrary to Christianity. The Catholic Church teaches that there is nothing wrong with believing in evolution.

Evolution as an ideology, however, is contrary to Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. Ideological evolution means “God has no part in evolution, evolution is just a natural system within the Universe.” In essense, ideological evolution is a fruit of atheism and secularism.

If Muslims reject evolution – we’re talking about one-sixth of the world’s population – that will be detrimental to the development of science and of those countries themselves.

I doubt it. There are 1.923 billion Christians in the world - that’s twenty-eight percent of the world population - and Christianity has not, in the last years, damaged science or the countries which Christians live in.

The Quran has a lot of detail about the creation of Adam

And it’s based on the creation story in the Bible. Adam himself is taken from the Bible.

 

[Cluny]

Jews or Christians also don’t beleive in Darwin’s theory . God sent human being in perfect shape .

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Your ignorance of Christianity and I would guess Judaism is amazing. Many Jews and many Christians do not find evolution in itself to be contrary to their faith. I am among them.

 

[chrisse]

Jews or Christians also don’t beleive in Darwin’s theory . God sent human being in perfect shape .

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Your ignorance of Christianity and I would guess Judaism is amazing. Many Jews and many Christians do not find evolution in itself to be contrary to their faith. I am among them.

And who died and made you Pope?

 

[Muslim_Woman]

** In the name of Allah , the Most Gracious , Ever Merciful **

Salaam/ Peace

I hope , no Jew or Christians believe any Prophet taught anything that supports Darwin theory ?

 

[chrisse]

** In the name of Allah , the Most Gracious , Ever Merciful **

Salaam/ Peace

I hope , no Jew or Christians believe any Prophet taught anything that supports Darwin theory ?

How is that your concern? According to your mohammet, the Jews killed all the prophets, and Christians are in shirk.

There is no conflict with science and faith. The theory of evolution is not in contradiction with our faith. It is a theory that is worthy of study.

But between you and me, muslims come from chimpanzees, and the rest of us from the bonobo line of apes