RE: [Quranic Reflection]: Evolution
January 18, 2020 at 8:05 am
(This post was last modified: January 18, 2020 at 8:06 am by WinterHold.)
(January 17, 2020 at 9:04 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote:(January 17, 2020 at 5:34 am)AtlasS33 Wrote: I have a problem with the third premise. Speech is well known to the production of both the tongue and the mouth. Even ancients used to take away the ability to speak by simply cutting the tongue or even burn the mouth altogether.
Why would Mohammed -peace be upon him- attribute something like that to God -explicitly and directly-?
Why wouldn't he? If you believe Allah is the creator of everything, surely it's not a stretch to think he gifted us language? Is there some difference between believing that speech evolved by Allah's hand and that he 'gave it' to us?
Speech is a production of the human brain, the mouth is merely the vehicle or tool by which the sounds are made. If you cut out my tongue, I wouldn't magically forget language. I'd still be able to write, I'd still be able to learn sign language and communicate.
"teaching" is different than "giving".
"Teaching" takes time and stages, fitting "evolution" very well with each step of evolving from primitive animals to "Homo erectus" then "Homo sapien"; teaching fits this path while "giving" fits the stories ancient shamans told.
Teaching fits evolution, giving fits shaman stories.
