{"id":493,"date":"2015-02-26T14:45:59","date_gmt":"2015-02-26T14:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/azmi.co\/cust\/ngba-wp\/?page_id=493"},"modified":"2017-11-29T17:47:34","modified_gmt":"2017-11-29T17:47:34","slug":"creation-or-evolution","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/nogodbutallah.org\/?page_id=493","title":{"rendered":"Atheism, Creation or Evolution"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the name of All\u0101h,<\/span>
\n the Beneficent, the Merciful.<\/span>
\n Peace and Blessings of All\u0101h on Mohammad.<\/span>
\n DEDICATED TO<\/span>
\n All\u0101h\u2013the Glorious and the High,<\/span>
\n Lord of the worlds<\/span>
\n AND TO<\/span>
\n Mohammad\u2013who brought the world<\/span>
\n to our feet and eternity to our arms.
\n<\/span>*<\/p>\n

\u2013GOD OR CHANCE\u2013
\n<\/span>CREATION OR EVOLUTION?<\/span><\/p>\n

The Toronto Star, Sunday April 4, 1999, Section C (p. 2), article \u201cBehold the new god: science\u201d notes that in 1953 \u201cStanley Miller passed an electrical charge, a simulation of lightning, through a mixture of chemicals that attempted to match those present on Earth at the time life is thought to have begun.\u00a0 <\/span>Amino acids, the basic elements of life, were formed. This, it seemed, demonstrated that life could emerge from basic chemistry.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 If life came through chance <\/i>rather than creation<\/i>, what is the source of this \u201cmixture of chemicals\u201d? How did it combine in the wild (as opposed to in a lab) in such sufficient proportion to produce this \u201cbasic elements of life?\u201d And what are the odds of lightning striking this mixture to begin life?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 If Chance <\/i>can produce a universe of immensity, beauty and order and beings of symmetry and precision then surely a Creator<\/i> can produce more.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 We will have to compromise our reasoning to accept that man could have evolved by Chance\/Accident <\/i>from a microscopic cell into such a magnificent form of symmetry, beauty and precision
\n\u2013two hands, legs, eyes, ears, nose and head with hair; bones and organs clothed in flesh and professionally beautified in skin;
\n-given intricate networks of vessels and blood; fingers and toes and with a unique set of prints, never duplicated, and nails to strengthen them;
\n-limbs having joints that not only swivel but are locked in place and with precision and smoothness; furnished with a set of wondrous teeth, even, and varied for cutting, tearing and grinding food and endowed with a digestive system;
\n-organs for breathing, consuming and evacuating\u2013 separating nourishment from waste; given a brain and heart (a self-propelling device, pumping incessantly for up to a hundred years and more);
\n-instilled with emotions; endowed with the faculties of reasoning; given sight (through fat), hearing (through bone), and speech (through a lump of flesh); equipped with various taste-buds;
\n-instilled with carnal passion to ensure the need for companionship and equipped with complimentary genitals and reproductive systems and regenerative cells for their propagating and provided with mammary glands and milk for the sustenance of the off-spring.
\n<\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0 Such an engineering marvel could not have come into existence by chance. This remarkable creature could only be the handiwork of the Master Designer called God. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

While in creationism man is equipped with the capacity of wisdom (which manifests as he matures),<\/i> in chance<\/i> man must not only evolve physically, but also mentally. If the physical came by chance,<\/i> the mental must also come by chance<\/i>. This would mean that chance has the ability to fashion the physical as well as the abstract. <\/span><\/p>\n

Then there is the soul, and the unseen beings \u2013angels and spirits\u2013 which must also have to come into existence by chance.<\/i><\/span>\u00a0(Devils are unseen, yet it is accepted that they possess, and are exorcised from, humans. It is not incredible then to accept the existence of angels and spirits).
\n<\/i>\u00a0 \u00a0Since the physical is composed of cells what is the unseen composed of? It is not reasonable that mere chance could evolve beings visible and some invisible.<\/span><\/p>\n

Neither is it reasonable that chance<\/i> could instill in plants the intricate system of photosynthesis to purify the air.
\nNor could it dictate that some creatures produce their young through eggs and others in the womb; for kangaroos to carry its young in a pouch; bees to seek nectar and make honey in their bellies; birds and butterflies to migrate (and with a sense of direction) for the winter; instill organization in ants; birds to emit sweet, powerful sounds; and provide different kinds and varieties of fruits and flowers; equip the porcupine with quills, the skunk with a spray as defense, vipers with venom; and instill in spiders the capability of spinning webs (which are \u201cgeometrically perfect\u201d and whose \u201cfragility cannot be imitated by man\u201d).1<\/span><\/sup>\u00a0<\/span> Such capabilities cannot be a chance<\/i> happening: it could only be acquired through the design of a Super Power\u2013God.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Chance<\/i> would also have to
\n-equip the bat with sonar in order to navigate and furnish it with the power of flight through wings of skin instead of feathers;
\n\u00a0 \u00a0–<\/i>instill the genetic code into the peacock to restore its color pattern which is a \u201cblend of delicate art, careful selection and superb merging\u201d after molting; <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0–<\/i>provide the locust with a mouth \u201cso appropriate to its ways of nourishment, its sharp jaws are so useful to eat grass and leaves and its artistically delicate but fairly strong legs are powerful enough to support its body on the blades of grass and leaves of trees\u201d;
\n\u00a0 \u00a0–<\/i>design the ant \u2013\u201cits alimentary canal, the places where food enters and refuse leaves its body, the cartilage of its ribs which protects its respiratory and circulatory systems and its stomach, its head with its pinpoint eyes and its organs and their connection with brain and body, you will be struck at the marvels of creation in this small body and you will not find it easy to describe and explain them.\u201d
\n<\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u201cThe details of living organisms are wonderfully small and delicate and amazingly intricate: and the differences in the organs of various forms of life are minute but precise.\u201d2<\/span><\/sup>
\n<\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0It is clear that chance <\/i>cannot bring about such marvels.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 In Islam creationism<\/i> does not oppose evolution.<\/i><\/span>\u00a0 However, the writers of the Biblical account of \u201cman and creation\u201d erroneously thought they could trace man\u2019s pedigree to the first pair, leaving the modern day Christian fathers with the wrong belief that the earth was only about six thousand years old. Muhammad Ali explains:<\/p>\n

\u201cAdam is generally taken to be the proper name for the first man, but neither here [Qur\u2019an 2:31<\/i>]\u00a0<\/i>nor anywhere else in the Holy Qur\u2019an is it affirmed that Adam was the first man or that there was no creation before him. On the other hand, great Muslim theologians have held that there were many Adams \u2013thousands of Adams\u2013 before the great ancestor of mankind known by this name (RM). As the previous verse shows [verse 30 of chapter 2<\/i>], the whole of humanity is spoken of here because the shedding of blood could not be the work of one man; the reference is to the shedding of the blood of man by man. Adam, therefore, though it may also be the name of a particular man stands for man generally.\u201d3<\/span><\/sup> <\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 <\/i>That this<\/i> Adam was not the first man seems to be borne out by the fact that after Cain killed Abel, Cain is said to have gone to the land of Nod where he knew his wife who conceived\u2013(Genesis 4:16-17). Since Cain and Abel were the only two children, and there was no mention of any other children then so that Cain could be said to have taken a sister as wife, where then did Cain find this woman in Nod for wife if there were no other human beings on the earth? (See\u00a0<\/span>Christianity-man made to live forever<\/a><\/span>).<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 The Arabic word yaum<\/i> means a period of time<\/i>\u2013from a moment to 1,000-50,000 years\u2013(Qur\u2019an 55:29; 22:47; 70:4). Thus, All\u0101h created the heavens and the earth in six periods<\/i> not six of our days. (For an explanation of yaum<\/i> see Muhammad Ali\u2019s Qur\u2019-anic commentary # 8\u2013chapter 1:3. His translation of the Qur\u2019an can be viewed online: www.muslim.org<\/a><\/span>).<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 As stated. Creationism is not opposed to evolution. A thousand years before Darwin, All\u0101h, God, revealed to us in His Qur\u2019an that He created every living thing from water\u2013(Qur\u2019an 21:30; 24:45. It has taken sophisticated man more than a thousand years to discover this, one of the many truths, conveyed to us by a desert inhabitant. Yet some deny the Divinity of the Qur\u2019an and call Mohammad an <\/i>\u201cimpostor\u201d<\/span>). <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 The principle of evolution was taught to the world for the first time in Islam.<\/i> Four of the ninety-nine Names of All\u0101h, God, are:<\/span><\/p>\n

(1) Rabb<\/i>\u2013\u201cthe Originator of things and their Combiner to create new forms. It means the Law-giver, Who frames Laws under which He propounds the shapes which things must assume and the ratio and proportion in which various ingredients must combine with each other. He is the Regularizer, i.e., the Lord Who puts things on the way to perfection. He is the Arranger of the different stages through which they have to pass on their way to completion.\u201d(Ref.<\/i> Qur\u2019an 87:1-3; <\/span>25:2; 54:49).\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>(2) \u00a0Al-Badi\u2019<\/i>\u2013He Who creates out of nothing;
\n<\/span>\u00a0(3) <\/span>Al-Bari<\/i>\u2013He Who originates things with various faculties in them;
\n<\/span>\u00a0(4) Al-Khaliq<\/i>\u2013He Who combines things in a given proportion to create new things.4<\/span><\/sup> <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 And Muhammad Ali explains: The Arabic word Rabb <\/i>which is generally taken as Lord, <\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cconveys not only the idea of fostering, bringing-up<\/i>, or nourishing, <\/i>but also that of regulating, completing <\/i>and accomplishing <\/i>(T-LL), i.e. of the evolution of things from the crudest state to that of the highest perfection. According to R, Rabb<\/i> signifies the fostering of a thing in such a manner as to make it attain<\/i> one condition after another until it reaches its goal of completion. <\/i>Hence Rabb <\/i>is the Author of all existence, Who has not only given to the whole creation its means of nourishment but has also beforehand ordained for each a sphere of capacity and within that sphere provided the means by which it continues to attain gradually to its goal of perfection. By the use of the word Rabb <\/i>the Holy Qur\u2019an thus hints at the law of evolution which is working in the universe.\u201d5<\/span> <\/sup><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 All\u0101h reveals in His Qur\u2019an that \u201cHe is the Originator of the heavens and the earth\u201d\u2013(2:117); and that He \u201coriginates creation then reproduces it\u201d\u2013(30:11).\u00a0 <\/span><\/span>All\u0101h originating and reproducing creation does not negate the possibility of Him effecting creation through evolution also. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0When he reaches the age of puberty, a male-child automatically, with the combination of certain ingredients in definite measures miraculously, begins to produce sperm\u2013life, living organisms; and this same sperm-drop (when mixed with the female\u2019s ovum)<\/i> is then evolved into a clot, then into a lump of flesh, then given bones, then into a form unlike human then into human form\u2013(Qur\u2019an 22:5; 23:13-14); and the female-child begins producing eggs. It would be a subjugation of reason to view this to be a mere accident.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 The combining of 2 parts hydrogen with one part oxygen produces water: it cannot produce any thing else. Likewise 3 parts hydrogen and one part oxygen cannot produce water but may give another substance. Therefore, if some creations are pro-duced through the combination of two or more elements in certain quantities, there is no argument to deny that these are manifested in accordance with the laws of All\u0101h, God. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 (All\u0101h, God, reveals in His Qur\u2019an that when He decrees a matter He only says to it \u201cBe, and it is\u201d\u2013(Qur\u2019an 2:117).<\/span>\u00a0<\/i>This \u201cBe, and it is\u201d<\/i> \u201cdoes not necessarily mean, as is sometimes erroneously understood, that when God decrees that a certain thing should come into being, it comes into being all at once. What it means is that when God decrees a thing, nothing can thwart His decree.\u201d6<\/span><\/sup> <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 There is information in the Qur\u2019an which was not known to man 1400 years ago. (See\u00a0<\/i><\/span>Qur\u2019an-prophecies<\/a>;\u00a0<\/span>Qur\u2019an-science<\/a><\/span>). <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 This alone is proof of \u201ccreationism.\u201d But this creationism does not negate evolution. All\u0101h, God, says that He created man with His own hands\u2013(Qur\u2019an 38:75; this does not necessarily mean that God actually fashioned man with His hands, but that He brought man into existence through a more immediate act as against the other creations which came through a process of evolution), <\/span>there is no statement to show that He created other forms of life directly as He created man. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 All\u0101h says that He created all things from water\u2013(Qur\u2019an 21:30; 24:45), which may suggest that other forms of life were created through the process of evolution according to His laws. (That God created all things from water is not to be confused with His statement that He created man as well from water; because this creation of man from water refers to his creation through procreation, for He already revealed that He created man with \u201cHis hands\u201d). <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 All\u0101h, God, reveals that He created all things in pairs\u2013(Qur\u2019an 42:11). If creatures had evolved by mere chance, the chance of them being evolved as either male or female or with any genitals for that matter, and with reproductive cells would seem highly improbable. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 All\u0101h, God, creating all things in pairs does not necessarily mean that He created all things through His laws of evolution (supposedly). He may have created a few species only; which inter-bred with one another (much like modern day inter-breeding of animals to produce other breeds);<\/i> which would account for the several species of one creature, as in the case of birds and beetles. This inter-breeding could very well apply to every king-dom of animal species.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 All\u0101h, God, says that when He decrees a matter, He only says to it\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cBe, and it is\u201d\u2013(Arabic \u201ckun fayakun<\/i>:\u00a0<\/i>Qur\u2019an 2:117). This coming into existence of the various creations according to the command(s) of Allah God\u2013(Qur\u2019an 41:11-12),<\/i> are their submitting to His will \u2013which is Islam<\/i>: Submission or Obedient to the law of God.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 After decreeing the various creations to manifest, All\u0101h God, created man and \u201cbreathed into him of His spirit\u201d\u2013(Qur\u2019an 7:11; 15:26-29; 32:7-9). <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 As can be seen, whereas All\u0101h manifested all other creations through a process or His command, His creating of man was through direct intervention. Thus, there are two methods of creation\u2013through the process or \u201cevolution\u201d under the laws of God, and through direct intervention or \u201ccreation.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 However, one must keep this creation through a \u201cprocess\u201d in perspective, i.e.<\/i> it must not be imagined as when one is viewing a movie \u2013where everything occurs one after the other in a few moments.<\/span> This creation process may take centuries. As already noted the Qur\u2019an likens one Divine day (or period) to be the equivalent of a thousand to fifty thousand years of ours. <\/span><\/p>\n

So if creation of the heavens and the earth took six days or periods, then we must be looking at a time frame of from six thousand years to three hundred thousand years \u2013it is not necessarily so that God created man immediately after His creating of the heavens and the earth. Neither is it necessarily so that God created all things one immediately after the other. There may have been intervals in between each phase of creation).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 In effect, All\u0101h, God, is Creator of all, though not necessarily by direct intervention; but also through \u2018laws of association\u2019 \u2013meaning when certain elements are combined new forms or objects come into being. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 The prophecies, scientific pronouncements, and the Qur\u2019an\u2019s inimitability\u2013(Qur\u2019an <\/span>2:23; 10:38; 17:89) are not only proofs of Mohammad\u2019s Messengership but also a refutation of atheism. Maurice Bucaille wrote: <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c[In the Qur\u2019an] \u201c<\/span>statements are to be found in it (as has been shown) that are connected with science: and yet it is unthinkable that a man of Muhammad\u2019s time could have been the author of them. Modern scientific knowledge therefore allows us to understand certain verses of the Qur\u2019an which, until now, it has been impossible to interpret.\u201d (The Bible The Qur\u2019an And Science<\/span><\/i>:<\/span> p. 251). <\/span><\/p>\n

If Mohammad was an \u201cimpostor\u201d and wrote the Qur\u2019an, it is the miracle of all ages that statements on science (and history: Pharaoh\u2019s body saved, Roman victory over Persia, Alexander the Great, Jesus not killed\/crucified) coming from the mouth of a Seventh Century unschooled desert dweller have proved true.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n

THE \u00a0QUR’AN: \u00a0MIRACLE \u00a0 OF \u00a0ALL \u00a0MIRACLES: by Dr. Zakir Naik: Though the two videos are similar there is additional info \u00a0in \u00a0one; and also in the question and answer section).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n