firedragon
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According to my understanding evolution does not have anything to say about whether or not there is a supreme creator. Darwin considered it absurd to doubt that a person could be an ardent theist and evolutionist.
Evolution does (according to my understanding) reject the concept that humans are a special act of creation as opposed to an evolutionary product of natural selection, however there seems to be plenty of evidence of common genetic material between humans and other apes. For example, "Ever since researchers sequenced the chimp genome in 2005, they have known that humans share about 99% of our DNA with chimpanzees" 1
How do you propose that common genetic material came to be in our genes if it wasn't through us and chimpanzees having a common ancestor?
1 Bonobos Join Chimps as Closest Human Relatives
Why did you name this thread "Evolution and a Muslim's perspective"? Its a good thread, but I would like to understand your purpose and I am sure you have one.
That being left to consider, Islamic theology has had its tug o wars through out history. But that is predominantly post Quranic theological views in conflict with each other. But if you analyse the Quran there are not many statements that honestly goes against evolution directly. In fact, some of the statements seem to support evolution.
I am interested to hear your perspective.