Islam
believes in the theory of creation and Darwinists believe in the Theory
of Evolution. In this article briefly it is discussed that
the life on earth is created by God; it is not accidental or by chance.
The atheists and the materialists negate the existence of God
and consider human life and even mind to be a form of matter.
Darwin’s theory of Evolution has influenced the minds of people and
their character has been influenced as well. Such people do
not believe in divine morals and values. They do not believe in God,
soul and Hereafter. Islam says that God has created this
universe and Humans with a specified goal. In Sura the Heifer
in verse 117 the Quran says: “To Him is due the primal origin of the
heavens and the earth: when He decrees a matter, He says to it: “Be”,
and it is.” Similarly in Sura Yasin in verse no. 82 the Quran
announces: “Verily, when He intends a thing, His command is, “Be”; and
it is”. The Quran has used two words for creation “Khalaq”
and “Amr”. “Amr” is immediate command and immediate
creation. Suppose about the creation of soul the Quran says:
They ask you about soul, say; the soul is the command of my Lord” – All
humans and the cosmos has been regarded as “Khalq”. The man comes in to
being through a proper natural system. Without sexual
intercourse and conception no life can take shape. But when
the Quran refers about the birth of Jesus Christ; it is not natural or
usual way of birth. It is through special command.
Similarly the mothers of Yahya and Ishmael had gone old and barren and
could not produce children. But the Quran mentions about
their birth through special command. The natural laws and
usual system of creation is regarded as Khalq. Hence the
Quran in Sura Al-Imran in verse 190 says; “Behold! In the creation of
heavens and the earth, and the alternation of Night and Day – there are
indeed signs for men of understanding.” There are many verses
in the Quran dealing with the subject of creation. Then there
is also the concept of evolutionary process in creation but it is not
in Darwinian sense but in the sense of developing stages of
cosmos. The Quran in Sura The Height in verse 54 announces;
“Your Guardian – Lord is Allah, who created the heavens and the earth
in six days.” Then in Sura “the cattle” in verse 2 the Quran
says; “He it is who created you from clay; and then decreed a stated
term) for you). An there is in His presence another
determined term; yet you doubt within yourselves”. The six
days and stated term indicate the process and stages of creation by
God. The creation of the universe in six days is the Biblical
concept as well. Man is the blend of Matter and
Soul. When God created Adam out of clay he infused his spirit
in it. The Quran very explicitly narrates the story of the
creation of Adam. The materialists do not believe in creation
and spirit and regard the universe only the product of blind material
forces. Now let us discuss what Darwin propounded.
Darwinism bases on materialism. The ancient Greek
materialists like Democritus believed in Evolutionary
Naturalism. Besides the British scientist Charles Robert
Darwin (1809 – 1882) and the British philosopher Herbert Spencer (1820
– 1903), a number of other eminent philosophers supported the theory of
evolution. Hegel’s theory of cosmic evolution is its
offshoot. Nietzsche applied the concept of evolution to ethical
theory. Karl Marx and Engels adopted it to socio – political
philosophy. Thomas Henry Huxlay humanized it. Henri
Bergson became one of its most influential exponents and Samuel
Alexander developed it into his novel theory of emergent
evolution. French Zoologist Jean de Lamarck (1744 – 1829), in
1809 presented his pioneering theory of evolution. Charles
Darwin, in his “The Origin of Species” 1859) and “The Descent of Man”
1871), presented his theory of evolution. He presented the
theory of the Mechanism of Natural Selection or survival of the
fittest. Darwinism maintains that living things were not
created but came into being by chance. Darwinism, materialism
and communism believe in matter not in spirit. Darwin himself
regarded his theory based on assumptions. Darwinism has been
scientifically rejected. The defeat of Darwinism in the faces
of science can be reviewed under three basic topics:
1-
The Darwinism theory cannot scientifically explain
how life originated on Earth.
2-
No scientific finding shows that the “evolutionary
mechanism” proposed by the theory have any evolutionary power at all.
3-
The fossil record provided proves the exact opposite
of what the theory suggests.
The
evolutionists’ claim that the universe started from “first atom” and
life started from “first cell”. Who created the atom and
cell, the evolutionists cannot answer. Inanimate matter must
have produced a living cell as a result of coincidence in the belief of
the evolutionists. Modern biologists have rejected this
claim. Life comes from life has been proved. The
theory of “spontaneous generation”, which asserts that non-living
materials came together to form living organism has been
rejected. In a lecture at the Sorbonne in 1864, Pasteur said;
“Never will the doctrine of spontaneous generation recover from the
mortal blow struck by this simple experiment.” The great
evolutionists like Russian biologist Alexander Oparin and American
chemist Stanley Miller experimented to prove that a living cell could
originate by coincidence but failed and they admitted their
failure. Oparin in “Origin of Life” and Stanley Miller in
“Molecular Evolution of life” discuss it in detail. Jeffery
Bada in his book “Earth” admits: “we still face the biggest unsolved
problem that we had when we entered the twentieth century: how did life
originate on earth.” The conditions required for the
formation of cell are too great in quantity to be explained away by
coincidences. The DNA molecule is so complex that it cannot
be accidental or coincidental. Mechanism of evolution has
been also rejected. No deer becomes horse and no ape becomes
man. It is a fallacious theory having no historical and
scientific evidence.
Lamarck
and Darwin believed in the transferring of traits of one species to the
other. They maintain that living creatures passed on the
traits they acquired during lifetime to the next generation.
Giraffes evolved from antelopes and bears transformed into
whales. However, the laws of inheritance discovered by Gregor
Mendel (1822 – 1884) and verified by the science of genetics have
nullified the theory of evolutionary mechanism. Neo-Darwinism
advances the Modern synthetic Theory”. Mutations, i.e.; genetic
disorders do not cause living beings to develop on the contrary they
are always harmful. The fossil record theory of Darwin, which
was a basic contention, has been rejected on scientific
grounds. According to this theory, every living species has
sprung from a predecessor. No
“Transitional
Forms” have yet been uncovered. On the contrary, the British
Paleontologist, Drerk v. Ager in “The Nature of the Fossil Record”
admits that the fossil records shows not gradual evolution but the
sudden explosion of one group at the expense of another. This
is just the opposite of Darwin’s assumptions. Douglas J.
Futuyma, an eminent evolutionist biologist in his book, “Science of
Trail” announces organism as the creation of some omnipotent
intelligence. Fossils show, writes Harun Yahua, in his book,
“The Importance of Conscience in the Quran”, that living beings emerged
fully developed and in a perfect state on the earth. That
means, that the Origin of Species, contrary to Darwin’s suppositions,
is not evolution, but creation.” On the wonders of creation
the Quran in Sura Rehman aptly announces: “He has created
man. He has taught him an intelligent speech.” Then
in the same Sura in verse 13 God announce; “Then which of the favors of
your Lord will ye deny.”
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