(March 18, 2022 at 9:40 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Not at all. Islamic <snip> book definitively rejects evolutionary biology
False. The account of creation from clay can be reconciled with modern biology by poiting out to clay minerals as catalysts of some forms of chemical reactions, that resulted in the formation of more complex types of organic molecules found in living organisms.
You can easily find literature investigating the link between clay minerals and the origin of life :
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8880559/
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/6328/f2...03d259.pdf
https://www.intechopen.com/chapters/38858
Looks like you're on your way to unravel another instance of divine foreknowledge, amen to that, congratulations.