tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38085367.post3644963720106798259..comments2024-03-19T09:06:21.507-04:00Comments on Irtiqa: Nuance needed regarding the issue of evolution and London Imam Usama HasanSalman Hameedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04327330113822656571noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38085367.post-83170159241191342812011-03-09T11:59:59.917-05:002011-03-09T11:59:59.917-05:00I have written about the Usama Hasan controversy o...I have written about the Usama Hasan controversy over at Cif:<br /><br />http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2011/mar/09/islam-science-evolutioninayathttp://inayatscorner.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38085367.post-33798167646535137082011-03-08T22:42:05.495-05:002011-03-08T22:42:05.495-05:00This kid is going to go far, especially since he k...This kid is going to go far, especially since he knows English as well as he does ;)emrehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00931870864104747021noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38085367.post-4591521588382755002011-03-08T06:12:29.471-05:002011-03-08T06:12:29.471-05:00Salman, how exactly do you reconcile the Adam-Eve ...Salman, how exactly do you reconcile the Adam-Eve myth with Evolution? It's true that Quran is not explicitly anti-evolution, nobody expects the Quran to scream "DARWIN IS WRONG!!!", but the book does emphasize the concept of "Ashraful Makhluqat"(which I think you know very well to be scientifically inaccurate) and it does claim that all men are descended from Adam and Eve. No two individual gave rise to the entire human race, so even if you are willing to concede that the aforementioned couple were apes(as a layman would understand the word), you still won't get it right.<br /><br />Evolution is a very slow process of development while creation is the instantaneous materialization of something, what creative agency would opt for a slow process like evolution when it has the supernatural power of instantaneous creation in it's hands! These two concepts are fundamentally different, hoping for a reconciliation between these two is nothing but a waste of time.<br /><br />What you should do is campaign for secularization of Muslim countries and promote free thought and philosophy of science. I'm a high school student in Bangladesh, believe me, NO ONE will seriously consider the proposition that evolution is compatible with Islam. Pious Muslims(or any pious person for that matter) do not study science for the sake of knowledge, they study science to become engineers and doctors and live an opulent life. A radical change is needed in people's outlook on science for evolution to be portrayed as what it really is.<br /><br />As for the news article, call it "Islamophobia" or any such self-victimizing name, but there's no denying that Muslims today have absolutely zero tolerance for dissident views. They are now what Christians were in the pre-Enlightenment era. There is really no "positive" way to report on how Islamists threatened an imam for the "crime" of expressing "Darwinist" views.পৃথ্বীhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14484231063845333787noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38085367.post-91826799805427511122011-03-07T09:40:51.016-05:002011-03-07T09:40:51.016-05:00Salman.You bring up some good points and a sensibl...Salman.You bring up some good points and a sensible balanced perspective to this whole issue. It's not as simple as many people portray it, and the intrusion of religious and identity politics complicates things further. It's wrong to threaten people when there are disagreements and I hope we can all learn to have a civil discourse on the issue of Evolution.Mohamedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03713658577594814316noreply@blogger.com