Where does Islam stand on the issue of creationism/evolution?

Question

Is there the same big debate about evolution that is plagueing christianity or do people generally ignore the question?
Are you supposed to believe in evolution seing it as a tool of Allah or to some Muslims rule it out completely as being opposed to the Qur'an?

Answer 1

The Quran says that Adam was the first of his kind. But that he evolved from a more primitive form.

There is more science in the Quran than most people know. Unless you actually study it you will not understand it.

The is how the building blocks of all living beings is water and clay. Modern science just found that DNA is made of clay. There is also science of how weather is produced, water is separated, mountains are formed, and the Universe itself. Modern science is just now catching up and proving the Quran right. Including evolution.

For a better understanding of the Quran and evolution you should read.

Did Adam and Eve have belly buttons? An Islamic Perspective on Evolution. by T.O. Shanavas, M.D


T.O. Shanavas, M.D. is the author of Creation and/or Evolution: An Islamic Perspective. He is a practicing pediatrician with interest in the study of science in the context of religion. He has written for the Metanexus Institute for Science and Religion, and has been published in NCSE Reports, the journal for the National Center for Science and Education. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics. He is the editor of The Alternate Voice, a bimonthly news letter published from Toledo, Ohio.

Dr. Shanavas is an active member of the Islamic Center of Greater Toledo, OH and is the vice president of the Islamic Research Foundation in Louisville, KY.

Answer 2

Muslims are to believe in creationism. There can be "survival of fittest" taking place within a species but it is impossible new species are created over the passage of time.
Harun Yahya is one the muslim thinker that strongly oppose evolution. Visit his site to download some interesting articles and videos http://www.harunyahya.com

Answer 3

Evolution is a no issue topic in Islam, we Muslims reject it totally.

Answer 4

Islam believes in the Torah, Bible and Qur'an.

So just like the American bible basher, they might believe in creationism.

But just like Christianity, its all open to interpretation - as long as your ignorant of science,

Answer 5

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Answer 6

Islam is a relgion out of a fiction with a story of adam and eve .this story had different versions with the passage of time from bible to it.

so dont believe in fiction

Answer 7

Charles Darwin. Sister has posed the question - how can you reconcile the Qur’an, with Darwin’s ‘Theory of Evolution’? Sister, I have not come across any book which says… ‘Fact of Evolution’. All the books say ‘Theory of Evolution’ - there is no book I have come across saying fact of evolution. If you read the book by Charles Darwin ‘The Origin of Species’ - It says that… “Charles Darwin went on an island by the name of ‘Keletropist’ on a ship named as ‘HMS Beagel’ and there he found birds pecking at niches. Depending upon the Ecological niches they peck, the beaks kept on becoming long and short. This observation was made in the same species - not in different species”. Charles Darwin wrote a letter to his friend Thomas Thomtan, in 1861 saying ‘I do not believe in ‘Natural Selection’- the word that you use - I don’t believe in ‘Theory of Evolution’ because I haven’t got any proof. I only believe in it because it helps me in classification of Embryology, in Morphology, in rudimentary organs’. Charles Darwin himself said that , there were missing links. He did not agree with it - He himself said that there were missing links. Therefore , if I have to insult someone that if you were present at Darwin’s time this theory would been proved right, trying to insinuate that he looks like an Ape. It is a joke we make. The reason that this theory in most parts of the world - it is taught as good as fact - You know why? Even I was in school - I learnt about Darwin’s theory - and even today they are taught - You know what the reason is sister? The reason is because, that if you analyse, the Church… the Church was against Science previously - and you know the incidence that they sentenced Galileo to death. They sentenced Galileo to death - Why? Because he said certain statements in the Astronomy, etc., which went against the Bible - So they sentenced him to death , for which the Pope apologized now. So when Charles Darwin came up with a theory which goes against the Bible, they did not… they did not want any sufficient proof - An enemy of my enemy is my friend. So all the Scientists… most of them - they supported the theory, because it went against the Bible - not because it was true. They only supported it because it went against the Bible`. All the stages you have mentioned sister… all the stages… ‘Lucy’ - there were four ‘Homonites’. Science tells us today that there were four ‘Homonites’ - first is ‘Lucy’ along with its guy ‘Dosnopytichest’, which died about 3 and a 1/2 million years - the Ice Age. Then next came the ‘Homosepians’, who died about 5 hundred thousand years ago. Then came the ‘Neanderthal Man’, who died hundred to forty thousand years ago. Then came the fourth stage, ‘the Cromagnon’. ‘There is no link at all between these stages’ - According to P. P. Grasse in 1971 who held the Chair of Evolutionary Studies in Paris, in Sojerion University. He said… ‘It is absurd - We cannot say who were our ancestors based on fossils’. I can give you a list of hundreds of scientists and Noble Prize winners who speak against Darwin’s theory… Hundreds. If you know of Sir Albert George who got the Noble prize for inventing… for inventing the Vitamin ‘C’ - He wrote the book ‘The Can’t Ape and Man’, against Darwin’s Theory. Again if you read, Sir Fred Hoyle’s work - he wrote several works against Darwin’s Theory. If you know about Ruperts Albert, this person wrote a new theory of evolution against Darwin’s Theory. Its unthinkable… you cannot think that we are created from the Apes. If you know of Sir Frank Salosbury… he was a biologist. He said… ‘It is illogical to believe in Darwin’s theory’. If you know about Whitmeat… Sir Whitemeat, he wrote a book against Darwin’s Theory - He was also a Biologist. Several ! you can give a list of hundreds. Today it is taught in the schools - Why? … I told you - Media is in their hands. Otherwise there is no proof at all. There are certain proofs at lower level - an Ameba, at lower species level… Ameba can change to Paremishia. Qur’an does not say…‘Ameba cannot change to Paremishia’ - Qur’an does not say. If they have got proof… It cannot be possible… It is not against the Qur’an. But there is no proof at all. People talk about Molecular Biology Theory - they talk about Genetic coding. According to Henses Crake who is a authority in this field - he said… ‘It is unimaginable’. Again if you do that ratio, the probability of one DNA forming, ‘from Ape to Human being, is again Zero’. If I start calculating, I think you will get bored again - You know the calculation. I told you… for one Protein Molecule, it is some what similar from one DNA. It is not possible at all. You know there is theory recently… ‘that homosexuality is Genetic’. And when I read in the Times of India, I thought, surely the moment I attend the next lecture on Sunday at I.R.F, I will be asked this question. ‘If homosexuality is Genetic, how can Allah blame us? - Qur’an speaks against homosexuality’. And I said that see…‘This is a theory wait till it gets established…It is a theory - don’t comment on that

Within just matter of span of just few months it was proved to be illogical - and the person who propounded this theory that… ‘Homosexuality is Genetic’ - he himself was an Homosexual. Therefore I said, I am going to give my talk on scientific facts - not on theories and assumption. Darwin’s theory has not been proven…‘We have not been created from Ape’. There are hundreds of Scientists who speak against that and Qur’an speaks against that also. Qur’an says the first man was Adam (Peace be upon him). InshaAllah they will discover it 100 years afterwards, or may be a 1000 years afterwards. Today there are researches showing, that human being have been created from one pair again - It is just a theory. It supports the Qur’anic verse that human beings have been created from one pair, male and female – It is just a theory, therefore I do not quote that in my talk. InshaAllah it will be established 50 years afterwards, or 100 years afterwards. Then we will know that Qur’an conciliates with this part - So far it is not conflicting – It is not conflicting with established Science, at all. Hope that answers the question.