Scientific Errors in the Quran: Difference between revisions
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==Evolution== | ==Evolution== | ||
The Qur'an advocates [[creation|creationism]]. It is incompatible with the thesis of human evolution from simpler life forms and natural selection. This is not very controversial as [[Muslim Statistics - Science#Evolution|reliable statistics]] on the subject have shown most Muslims agree Islam and evolution are not compatible. | |||
===Human created from clay=== | ===Human created from clay=== | ||
{{Main|Creation of Humans from Clay}} | {{Main|Creation of Humans from Clay}} | ||
The scientific hypothesis postulates that clay merely 'match-makes' RNA and membrane vesicles - and therefore does not form a building block. This is contrary to the Islamic faith which postulates that human beings were created ''from'' clay, implying clay was a building block. | |||
{{Quote|{{Quran|15|26}}| | {{Quote|{{Quran|15|26}}| | ||
We created man from sounding clay, from mud moulded into shape; }} | |||
{{Quote|{{Quran| | {{Quote|{{Quran|2|117}}| | ||
To Him is due the primal origin of the heavens and the earth: When He decreeth a matter, He saith to it: "Be," and it is. }} | |||
===Humans were created from a single being=== | ===Humans were created from a single being=== | ||
Some apologists will claim this is consistent with modern scientific knowledge because scientists refer to individuals labeled as [[W:Mitochondrial Eve|Mitochondrial Eve]] and [[W:Y-chromosomal Adam|Y-chromosomal Adam]]. This is a bad misunderstanding since these are the terms for the last common male and female ancestors of everyone alive today, not of all humans in history. Incidentally, the Qur'an clearly states Eve was created later than (and from) Adam. [[W:Mitochondrial Eve|Mitochondrial Eve]] lived some 50,000 to 80,000 years earlier than [[W:Y-chromosomal Adam|Y-chromosomal Adam]]. More to the point, genetic studies indicate that humans diverged from earlier species as a population, not a single couple. See [http://biologos.org/blog/does-genetics-point-to-a-single-primal-couple] and [http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2011/09/18/how-big-was-the-human-population-bottleneck-not-anything-close-to-2/]. | |||
{{Quote|{{Quran|7|189}}| | {{Quote|{{Quran|7|189}}| | ||
"He it is Who created you from a single being, and of the same (kind) did He make his mate," }} | "He it is Who created you from a single being, and of the same (kind) did He make his mate," }} | ||
===Creation of humans happened in an instant=== | ===Creation of humans happened in an instant=== | ||
{{Quote|{{Quran|2|117}}| | {{Quote|{{Quran|2|117}}| | ||
" | "To Him is due the primal origin of the heavens and the earth: When He decreeth a matter, He saith to it: "Be," and it is" }} | ||
===Fall from paradise down to the earth=== | |||
{{Quote|{{Quran|2| | {{Quote|{{Quran|2|36}}| | ||
" | "Then did Satan make them slip from the (garden), and get them out of the state (of felicity) in which they had been. We said: "Get ye down, all (ye people), with enmity between yourselves. On earth will be your dwelling-place and your means of livelihood - for a time." }} | ||
==Astronomy== | ==Astronomy== | ||
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{{Main|Dhul-Qarnayn and the Sun Controversy in the Qur'an}} | {{Main|Dhul-Qarnayn and the Sun Controversy in the Qur'an}} | ||
The Qur'an propagates a popular myth from that time and region that a man visited the places where the sun sets and rises and found that the sun goes into a muddy spring. | |||
{{Quote|{{Quran|18|86}}| | {{Quote|{{Quran|18|86}}| | ||
Until, when he reached the setting of the sun, he found it set in a spring of murky water: Near it he found a People: We said: "O Zul-qarnain! (thou hast authority,) either to punish them, or to treat them with kindness."}} | |||
=== Geocentricism=== | === Geocentricism=== |