Islam & Evolution, were we wrong ?

[Confused Ape]

You could have a deistic God who created the laws of physics that potentially would allow something like humans to evolve somewhere in the universe by pure chance but that isn't the Biblical or Islamic God.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theistic_ev...ite_note-1

According to the American Scientific Affiliation:

A theory of theistic evolution (TE) — also called evolutionary creation — proposes that God's method of creation was to cleverly design a universe in which everything would naturally evolve. Usually the "evolution" in "theistic evolution" means Total Evolution — astronomical evolution (to form galaxies, solar systems,...) and geological evolution (to form the earth's geology) plus chemical evolution (to form the first life) and biological evolution (for the development of life) — but it can refer only to biological evolution.[1]

From Religious Tolerance org

http://www.religioustolerance.org/chr_divi1.htm

Very liberal Christians consider the Bible as one among many of the world's important religious texts. It was written by a number of men, and perhaps one or more women. They attempted to describe their personal religious beliefs, and those of their faith group, to their readers. But "many parts of the Bible cannot be taken literally, either as historically factual or as expressing the will of God." 2 Liberals take what might be called a "bottom-up" approach: the Bible is a "human response to God." 3 The Bible was written by members of the Jewish, Jewish Christian and Pauline Christian faith groups over about a 1000 year interval, circa 900 BCE to 150 CE. Its original purpose was to allow the authors to disseminate their religious and spiritual thoughts among their fellow believers. Thus, a passage from one of Paul's epistles is a description of how Paul interpreted the will of God. It may or may not actually reflect God's actual will.

As far as Christianity is concerned, then, the God of the Bible is whatever different groups of Christians decide he is.

PS: If people think theistic evolution is a daft idea how about this one?

http://news.discovery.com/space/are-we-l...121216.htm

The popular film trilogy, The Matrix, presented a cyberuniverse where humans live in a simulated reality created by sentient machines.

Now, a philosopher and team of physicists imagine that we might really be living inside a computer-generated universe that you could call The Lattice. What’s more, we may be able to detect it.