11-19-2004, 02:51 PM
Charles Darwin, an English Atheist scientist who lived in the 1800's in London,
England created the “Theory of Evolution”. He believed that humans were originally animals; more closer to monkeys and Apes (according to some old scripture, the naughty Jews were turned into these animals by God), then they were developed and became more intelligent and formed the "human" race. He also had other theories that dealt with reproduction and other human-animal related topics.
Most of us have heard about Darwin's theories, which have been rejected by the modern scientific research. Likewise, the theory of Evolution has no support in Islam either.
According to Holy Qur’an - Allah created the first man of Mankind on Earth from scratch (Torah and Bible has the same opinion). He didn't evolve him from any other of His creation: "Behold, thy Lord said to the Angels: 'I will create a vicegerent on earth…..” - (Holy Qur’an, 2:34) .
Allah created humans and animals from dust: "From the (earth) did We create you, and into it shall We return you, And from it shall We bring you out once again.” - (Holy Qur’an, 20:55)".
Now the question arises that if this “Evolution Theory” is valid – Then how come humans didn't develop into something more intelligent and physically different than us today? I know that we are much more technologically advanced and
more knowledgeable than the humans that existed 3,000 years ago for instance. But if we originated from apes and monkeys, then what will be the advanced stage for us? Perhaps being born as a result of ‘same sex marriages’ or by cloning?
This still doesn't prove that humans came from animals or vise versa. We are far more intelligent than animals. We co-existed with animals for thousands ofyears, and they have not changed a bit. In fact, many of them have already been extinct.
Also spiritually, only humans on earth have Allah’s spirit in them. Nowhere in Holy Qur’an do we see Allah giving spirits to animals:
"Behold! thy Lord said to the angels: 'I am about to create man, from sounding clay From mud moulded into shape; 'When I have fashioned him (In due proportion) and breathed Into him of My spirit, fall ye down in obeisance unto him’.” - (Holy Qur’an, 15:28-29)