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Why do the religious hate evolution?
February 17, 2019 at 8:45 am
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I'm very confused about this, but I have a question: why are Muslims against evolution?
If we look at the studies of DNA and human ancestory; it actually points very clearly to a "common ancestor" that would make the story of Adam & Eve even more probable; it also points to "other creatures" that share human traits like the infamous "gog and magog", arent's chimps our brothers?.
Without DNA and DNA studies; these stories about "Adam and Eve, gog and magog" would be mere ink on paper. Evolution actually supports religions like Islam; not going against it.
One important stop we can stop at, is the time humanity lost its "skin cover" after eating from a mysterious fruit; mentioned in the Quran:
Quote:Sura 20, The Quran:
Sahih International
(121) And Adam and his wife ate of it, and their private parts became apparent to them, and they began to fasten over themselves from the leaves of Paradise. And Adam disobeyed his Lord and erred.
We know that certain diets cause mutations to human genes as the time goes by. In fact even skin color is subject to the constraints of the diet. You can lose your hair if your diet dictated so; and Adam & Eve both lost their cover when their diet included the forbidden fruit.
Now science proved this could easily happen.
The question still stands: what's wrong in saying that God's hands are -just like God himself- are not visible to us? and that evolution is the way he used to shape humanity and shape its genome?
The accuracy of God can be seen in the few differences between us and Chimps.
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RE: Why do the religious hate evolution?
February 17, 2019 at 9:04 am
People think they are special. A "common ancestor", extinguishes that notion quite conclusively.
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RE: Why do the religious hate evolution?
February 17, 2019 at 9:33 am
1. They get "Heaven Points" for challenging a godless doctrine.
2. They're afraid we're right.
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RE: Why do the religious hate evolution?
February 17, 2019 at 11:30 am
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Except evolutionary "Adam" and "Eve", unlike the Biblical Adam and Eve, weren't a couple. We also mustn't forget we (all organisms) ultimately started as single-celled prokaryotes. A single-celled prokaryote was our universal common ancestor.
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RE: Why do the religious hate evolution?
February 17, 2019 at 11:36 am
And everything alive today evolved to this point. Life is a bush, not a tree.
Or, as Jehovah said, "Bring me a shrubbery!" and lo, it was so.
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RE: Why do the religious hate evolution?
February 17, 2019 at 11:49 am
Evolution is observed reality.
Nearly every religion I know of adds fantasy and delusion in the form of gods or a god into their mental perception of what they believe is real.
Evolution tends to break the fantasy.
Reality has a way of doing that.
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RE: Why do the religious hate evolution?
February 17, 2019 at 12:43 pm
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RE: Why do the religious hate evolution?
February 17, 2019 at 1:41 pm
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Evolution doesn't point to any of that, you're making things up..Atlas. Your reaction to both of those facts will neatly describe and explain their reaction.
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RE: Why do the religious hate evolution?
February 17, 2019 at 2:46 pm
(February 17, 2019 at 8:45 am)AtlasS33 Wrote: I'm very confused about this, but I have a question: why are Muslims against evolution?
If we look at the studies of DNA and human ancestory; it actually points very clearly to a "common ancestor" that would make the story of Adam & Eve even more probable; it also points to "other creatures" that share human traits like the infamous "gog and magog", arent's chimps our brothers?.
Without DNA and DNA studies; these stories about "Adam and Eve, gog and magog" would be mere ink on paper. Evolution actually supports religions like Islam; not going against it.
One important stop we can stop at, is the time humanity lost its "skin cover" after eating from a mysterious fruit; mentioned in the Quran:
Quote:Sura 20, The Quran:
Sahih International
(121) And Adam and his wife ate of it, and their private parts became apparent to them, and they began to fasten over themselves from the leaves of Paradise. And Adam disobeyed his Lord and erred.
We know that certain diets cause mutations to human genes as the time goes by. In fact even skin color is subject to the constraints of the diet. You can lose your hair if your diet dictated so; and Adam & Eve both lost their cover when their diet included the forbidden fruit.
Now science proved this could easily happen.
The question still stands: what's wrong in saying that God's hands are -just like God himself- are not visible to us? and that evolution is the way he used to shape humanity and shape its genome?
The accuracy of God can be seen in the few differences between us and Chimps.
OMG, stop trying to shoe horn science/evolution and religion together. It will never work.
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RE: Why do the religious hate evolution?
February 17, 2019 at 4:04 pm
(February 17, 2019 at 9:04 am)no one Wrote: People think they are special. A "common ancestor", extinguishes that notion quite conclusively.
Reminds me of a creationist Catholic nun who I had for a teacher during my freshman year in high school. She stated a number of times that evolutionary theory wasn't true because, "No one is going to call me a monkey!"
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