RE: Evolution and Islam
December 4, 2013 at 5:32 am
(This post was last modified: December 4, 2013 at 5:33 am by pineapplebunnybounce.)
It really could mean growth from baby to adulthood. Developmental stages.
Anyway, it's very ridiculous to claim that anything less than a clearly articulated paper on a theory is actually the beginning of a theory. If you read early science papers proposing various theories (and there were a lot proposing what we now think are pretty ridiculous theories), they have a clear idea of what they're talking about, they describe what they will find if their theory is true. It usually consists of several pages, not one extremely vague sentence.
And the key of evolution is, I would argue, natural selection. The discovery of the mechanism is where the true genius of Darwin lies. Even during Darwin's time people were breeding animals and observing changes but no one made the connection. So even if the qur'an did mean changes in the evolutionary sense, it made 0 contribution to the actual theory.
Anyway, it's very ridiculous to claim that anything less than a clearly articulated paper on a theory is actually the beginning of a theory. If you read early science papers proposing various theories (and there were a lot proposing what we now think are pretty ridiculous theories), they have a clear idea of what they're talking about, they describe what they will find if their theory is true. It usually consists of several pages, not one extremely vague sentence.
And the key of evolution is, I would argue, natural selection. The discovery of the mechanism is where the true genius of Darwin lies. Even during Darwin's time people were breeding animals and observing changes but no one made the connection. So even if the qur'an did mean changes in the evolutionary sense, it made 0 contribution to the actual theory.
