Is it possible to be a Muslim and believe in evolution theory?

Question

Just curious.

Answer 1

May the peace, blessings and mercy of God be upon you

We can believe in Microevolution (the change in allele frequency in a population overtime within a certain species).

However we cannot believe that a species turned into another species, or that we descended from monkeys thru descent with modification.

We may have been created similar to monkeys but God has given us Intellect and other features of which only we as Humans have.

I suggest you view this webpage,

http://www.harunyahya.com

This brilliant man refutes it all (Atheism, Darwinism, Materialism etc.. with amazing proofs, and goes on to prove Intelligent Design)


Peace Be With You

Answer 2

Yes the Quran says that man (Adam and Eve) were the first of thier kind and that they came from a more primitive form.

you should check out Did Adam and Eve have belly buttons?

An Islamic Perspective on Evolution: by T. O. Shanavas.

For Dr. T.O. Shanavas, the major evolutionary question has little to do with apes and everything to do with belly buttons.

His book analyzes evolution by combining information from the Quran and different parts of Muslim history. Shavantas pushes the idea of intelligent design where evolution is part of a universe constructed by a higher power.

Muslims had the idea of evolution as a part of creation as early as the 10th or 11th century, long before Darwin and his own theory.



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.

Shanavas, a pediatrician and Indian native who has spent more than 35 years in the United States, wrote the book "Creation and/or Evolution: An Islamic Perspective" and is vice president of the Islamic Research Foundation in Louisville.

Answer 3

Yes. Belief in evolution in no way negates or contradicts belief in creation. It only contradicts that 6-days thing from the Bible. If I recall correctly, the Quran says 6 periods, not 6 days.


Edit: Just to clarify, the theory of evolution has in no way proven that humans descended from apes, nor that cats descended from squirrels. Evolution means species change over time, and this has been verified by scientific observation. This does not mean that these species were not uniquely created by God.

Answer 4

i'm a biology considerable and that i conflict with this question. final semester I had this geology type relating to the background of the earth and it blew my concepts. additionally they pronounced Earth colliding with the planet Theia (i spotted somebody else introduced this up too) to create the earth as all of us be attentive to it now and coming up the moon which stabilized earth's orbit and favourite the tidal varieties. I do have self assurance in evolution yet guy. The extra you learn, the extra you surely comprehend what proportion variables could be in play to make issues feasible for all times as all of us be attentive to it. each and everything works jointly so completely, i individually have self assurance Allah created a number of those issues and made it take place. i do no longer think of it replaced into some enormous twist of fate or fluke of nature.

Answer 5

i don't know about evolution but what i know that 1st you were dead, then God make u live , then you will die again, and then will return you to life again in the day of judgement (body and soul back).

Answer 6

All I know is that both beliefs are wrong.