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Topic: Evolution and Monotheism Posted: 30-Jan-2006 at 07:48 |
Originally posted by Maju
Originally posted by Omar al Hashim
Of course this means if an Ape is a Librarian and a senior faculty member in a certain university, he would count as a man.
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This raises a most interesting question. There are no ape librarians obviously
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Are you casting slurs on my avatar?
And sorry, Omar, while I personally appreciate your remark, if you go around calling the Librarian a man (as opposed to an ex-man) you are likely to have trouble reconnecting your head to your neck
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Posted: 30-Jan-2006 at 06:05 |
Originally posted by Omar al Hashim
In Islam I can't see any problem, the Qu'ran has plenty of scientific facts in it and everyone has turned out to be correct. I consider Evolution to be one of these, although Maziar in the idoletry thread seems to disagree. |
Where can I find a copy of the Qu'ran? I would like to see for myself how "scientific" it is. Is there a site where I could read the Qu'ran?
I really doubt that it has plenty of "scientific facts". I think it's as full as the Bible (OT, NT, whatever). Why are the islamic fundamentalists not posting? Their christian counterparts seem to be doing it.
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Posted: 30-Jan-2006 at 03:56 |
Originally posted by Omar al Hashim
Originally posted by barish
Originally posted by Omar al Hashim
What I don't understand, is what
the problem with evolution is. How does evolution have any affect on
anyones religous beliefs regardless of whether they are muslim,
christian, hindu etc. The way I understand it, is that because it
exists, God must have meant it to exist. |
You mean Adam existed, but he was looking like a monkey?
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The difference between man and ape being cognative thought and
intelligence. Why not? In fact if you remove intellegence from humans,
we pretty much are monkeys. |
Not monkeys (that are another branch of primates) but great apes. But for the rest you are right.
Of course this means if an Ape is a Librarian and a senior faculty member in a certain university, he would count as a man.
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This raises a most interesting question. There are no ape librarians
obviously but there are apes, specially chimpanzees and bonobos, our
closest cousins, that have shown rather surprising intelectual
abilities. I read once of a chimp that had been rated of a non-verbal
IQ of 80, which is well below human average but above some of our
species.
Verbal abilities are surely another specific trait of humankind: Leakey
already compared a human and a chimp brain to conclude that it's not
just overall size but that there are two main regions of huma brain
that are specially overdeveloped: frontal and lateral lobes, the ones
in charge of cognitive though and comunication. It seems that our
communicative ability, that allows us to exchange knowledge and to
organize cooperative effort, is a very important though often
underrated human ability.
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Posted: 30-Jan-2006 at 02:11 |
So tell us your arguement then, why did you change your faith?
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Posted: 29-Jan-2006 at 23:58 |
Originally posted by Omar al Hashim
Originally posted by Maziar
Darwin's theory may not be perfect, but it is more logical and acceptable than believing in Adam and Eve myth or God has created the univers befor 6000 years in only 6 days.
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Maziar, I thought you were an ex-muslim. Without looking up the exact words, the Qu'ran says: The universe was created in 6 days, but a day unto Allah is like 50000 years unto man. The number of years changes in different parts of the Qu'ran to emphise that the number of years is not important, mearly that it is a very long time, aeons. Quite signifcantly longer than 6000 years. Surely the rotation of the earth, or the earth about the sun is a silly way of measuring time, when you talking about the creation of the entire universe!
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Yes my friend i know that, but here i mean religions generaly, also christianity included. And yes i am an ex-moslem.
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Posted: 29-Jan-2006 at 23:34 |
Originally posted by Maju
Originally posted by Leonardo
Originally posted by Omar al Hashim
In Islam I can't see any
problem, the Qu'ran has plenty of scientific facts in it and everyone
has turned out to be correct. I consider Evolution to be one of these,
although Maziar in the idoletry thread seems to disagree. |
This guy, Harun Yahya, preaches against evolution:
http://www.evolutiondeceit.com/
I wonder how popular are his views among muslim believers ...
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Muslims against Evolution - LOL! The Bush camarilla is making friends quickly.
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Yeah, looks like Christian thinking being taken up by muslims. I don't see why any muslim needs to deny evolution.
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Posted: 29-Jan-2006 at 23:31 |
Originally posted by barish
Originally posted by Omar al Hashim
What I don't understand, is what
the problem with evolution is. How does evolution have any affect on
anyones religous beliefs regardless of whether they are muslim,
christian, hindu etc. The way I understand it, is that because it
exists, God must have meant it to exist. |
You mean Adam existed, but he was looking like a monkey?
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The difference between man and ape being cognative thought and
intelligence. Why not? In fact if you remove intellegence from humans,
we pretty much are monkeys.
Of course this means if an Ape is a Librarian and a senior faculty member in a certain university, he would count as a man.
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Posted: 29-Jan-2006 at 23:27 |
Originally posted by Maziar
Darwin's theory may not be perfect, but it is more logical and
acceptable than believing in Adam and Eve myth or God has created the
univers befor 6000 years in only 6 days.
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Maziar, I thought you were an ex-muslim. Without looking up the exact words, the Qu'ran says:
The universe was created in 6 days, but a day unto Allah is like 50000 years unto man.
The number of years changes in different parts of the Qu'ran to emphise
that the number of years is not important, mearly that it is a very
long time, aeons.
Quite signifcantly longer than 6000 years.
Surely the rotation of the earth, or the earth about the sun is a silly
way of measuring time, when you talking about the creation of the
entire universe!
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Posted: 29-Jan-2006 at 17:56 |
Darwin's theory may not be perfect, but it is more logical and acceptable than believing in Adam and Eve myth or God has created the univers befor 6000 years in only 6 days.
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Posted: 29-Jan-2006 at 17:52 |
Homo erectus, our ancestore, dated befor 1.7 million and 300,000 years
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Posted: 29-Jan-2006 at 17:21 |
Amoungst christians, it seems to me it is protties who have the biggest issues with Evolution.
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Posted: 29-Jan-2006 at 15:25 |
gcle2003, good point. Then there are the problems of missing links etc. But I doubt anyone can really claim today, that the Earth is only 7,000 years old.
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Posted: 29-Jan-2006 at 15:21 |
Originally posted by gcle2003
You have to rather careful in saying things like 'the theory of evolution is correct' (or 'wrong' for that matter) since there are several theories of evolution (Lamark, Lysenko, 'punctuated', 'gestalt'....) many of which are wrong, probably all of which will be proven wrong eventually, since they are scientific theories.
The contrast between scientific theories of evolution and stuff like creationism and ID is that the latter are not testable and therefore totally useless to any attempt to understand the universe.
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Ah Lysenko evolution, that brings back memories... Giraffe wanting to stretch their necks.
In science class at school we were taught this theory instead of Darwin. Or rather as what Darwin really meant to say. Fortunately we we're sent to gulags if we disagreed. However shows the ILEA really was controlled from Moscow as everyone suspected.
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Posted: 29-Jan-2006 at 10:24 |
Originally posted by barish
Originally posted by Omar al Hashim
What I don't understand, is what
the problem with evolution is. How does evolution have any affect on
anyones religous beliefs regardless of whether they are muslim,
christian, hindu etc. The way I understand it, is that because it
exists, God must have meant it to exist. |
You mean Adam existed, but he was looking like a monkey?
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Who cares a bout Adam? It's just a legend. Smart "Abrahmanics" read it
loosely in contrast with scientific facts, while fundamentalists of all
sects prefer to read it word by word.
We all look like monkeys, we like it or not - though a more adequate
word is ape (monkeys have tail). What's the problem with it if that's
how actually we were "created"? Are you challenging God because "he"
let evolution/Nature to do its job? It doesn't seem a pious attitude to
me.
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Posted: 29-Jan-2006 at 10:16 |
Originally posted by Leonardo
Originally posted by Omar al Hashim
In Islam I can't see any
problem, the Qu'ran has plenty of scientific facts in it and everyone
has turned out to be correct. I consider Evolution to be one of these,
although Maziar in the idoletry thread seems to disagree. |
This guy, Harun Yahya, preaches against evolution:
http://www.evolutiondeceit.com/
I wonder how popular are his views among muslim believers ...
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Muslims against Evolution - LOL! The Bush camarilla is making friends quickly.
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Posted: 29-Jan-2006 at 08:01 |
You have to rather careful in saying things like 'the theory of evolution is correct' (or 'wrong' for that matter) since there are several theories of evolution (Lamark, Lysenko, 'punctuated', 'gestalt'....) many of which are wrong, probably all of which will be proven wrong eventually, since they are scientific theories.
The contrast between scientific theories of evolution and stuff like creationism and ID is that the latter are not testable and therefore totally useless to any attempt to understand the universe.
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Posted: 29-Jan-2006 at 07:00 |
Hello barish,
I don't know why, but each time I encounter the classic Evolution vs Creation argument, the Adam is an ape question is posited.
Some of the Church hierarchy have stated that through divine providence, after having allowed Creation to mature slowly, the divinity "steps in" and gives the most able of the human-ish creature its present form, along with the soul and intellect.
One more thing, Adam in Hebrew (unless a Hebrew scholar can rebuff this) is not only a name for a man, it also is the name for Man.
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Posted: 29-Jan-2006 at 06:46 |
Originally posted by Omar al Hashim
What I don't understand, is what the problem with evolution is. How does evolution have any affect on anyones religous beliefs regardless of whether they are muslim, christian, hindu etc. The way I understand it, is that because it exists, God must have meant it to exist. |
You mean Adam existed, but he was looking like a monkey?
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Posted: 29-Jan-2006 at 04:28 |
Originally posted by Omar al Hashim
In Islam I can't see any problem, the Qu'ran has plenty of scientific facts in it and everyone has turned out to be correct. I consider Evolution to be one of these, although Maziar in the idoletry thread seems to disagree. |
This guy, Harun Yahya, preaches against evolution:
http://www.evolutiondeceit.com/
I wonder how popular are his views among muslim believers ...
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Posted: 29-Jan-2006 at 04:03 |
When a Christian reads the Old Testament literally, it is a recipe for disaster. The point is to read it typologically (prefigurements in the Old towards the New), it saves a lot hassle, especially when it comes to scenes of murder, pillage and battle. The Judaising element that you refer to, Maju, and in no way am I referring to Jews themselves here, leads to off-the-track interpretations... even though it is meant to be literal (cf. some sects who wish to bring on the "Anti-Christ" by becoming part of the pro-Israel lobby.
As regards the Evolution survey in your previous post, perhaps the question is put forth too simplistically. I am sure that many more would have answered "yes" to evolution if the question contained a little consideration for the divinity (I hope you understand what I am getting at here).
Indeed, the Church Hierarchy is less prone to change, especially when one considers dogmatical presuppositions. When it comes to Science, many are more open-minded than both you or I would think. Truth is, that there are some of the hierarchy who are as equally obstinate. None would differ on Creation per se, but many would differ on its processes, whether it be with regards to time, sequence of events - chicken or egg considerations- and other such things.
NB. Thanks for the tip re the database.
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