The Theory of Evolution and Islam | Sheikh Aous Asfar

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The Theory of Evolution and Islam Sheikh Aous Asfar | Ramadan Night 22 at the Ahlul Bayt Center of Toledo | 2024

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[0:16]states in the Holy Quran in the chapter muhamad Muhammad he States

[0:33]surely we will show them our signs in the horizons and within

[0:40]themselves until it is made clear to them that he is the

[0:44]truth is it not sufficient for you that your lord Bears witness

[0:50]over all things before we continue this discourse today our goal is

[0:59]to talk about Evolution but before we talk about Evolution it's important

[1:02]for us to remember that today is the day of the martydom

[1:07]of and that the holy household of the family of and the

[1:13]holy prophet are were going through a tough time it was very

[1:16]sad for them very sorrowful the women were still crying right um

[1:26]the imam's body was buried and now everybody was in mourning so

[1:29]it's it's important for us to stay sad and sorrowful to try

[1:35]to reduce the amount of joking you know um amongst ourselves to

[1:37]think about it as though we have someone in our family who

[1:40]has passed away right so keep that in mind and and live

[1:45]today and the next the next days up until with that sensibility

[1:51]right um so that you you really connect with okay and the

[1:57]orphans really can connecting with the orphans becomes tantamount becomes so important

[2:03]because now not only is this the last you know the last

[2:08]few days of the month of Ramadan that the holy household is

[2:11]spending without their father and the leader of their family now but

[2:14]soon it will beid and the kids will be without a father

[2:19]so keep that in mind and make sure that you carry that

[2:21]with you in your heart in these next upcoming days we mentioned

[2:27]of course that IM Ali as we as in the lecture yesterday

[2:32]that the Imam dedicated his life to teaching humanity abouted and that

[2:37]that is the role of the representatives of Allah we were able

[2:41]to understand then that the reason why in actual fact the Imam

[2:44]was was assassinated was because of that very fact because propagating the

[2:52]truth that Allah subhana wa ta'ala is the unlimited Creator brings people

[2:56]to the path right and prevents people from living aimless pointless lives

[3:02]where they can be controlled by the powers that be and so

[3:05]we understand then that the very reason why the Imam was targeted

[3:09]and why the Believers were targeted and why the were targeted was

[3:15]because they represented Allah subhah waala and they were assassinated because they

[3:21]were teaching that's the reality don't think that it there's any other

[3:24]reason right we say yes power and money but the reality is

[3:29]power and money you know was the motiv ation for for these

[3:31]evil individuals to kill the IM and the rest of our imams

[3:36]and the holy prophet why because they were teaching people the path

[3:40]to the truth the path to and so that's why it becomes

[3:44]important for us to learn theology right and that's why we're doing

[3:50]this discourse this coursework from the knowledge Seekers program this is the

[3:52]very first series um that we give in the knowledge Seekers um

[3:57]if you're interested you know go to knowledge Seekers 14 on Instagram

[4:01]sign up and inshallah we will send you information about it okay

[4:05]mamam about upcoming courses and so on so today we want to

[4:13]talk about Evolution and in order to address the issue of evolution

[4:17]it's important for us to First Define it linguistically see how it's

[4:21]used in everyday life in terms of usage as a term and

[4:25]then we want to look at it as a term of science

[4:30]how is it used in science Evolution right so as a term

[4:32]if you look up the word evolution in the dictionary you'll find

[4:37]that Evolution means the gradual development or change of something from um

[4:43]uh one state to another now in terms of usage right we

[4:47]would say something like oh over the years my uh you know

[4:54]I've evolved as a person right or I've seen this young man

[4:57]evolve over the years from being you know um uh a young

[5:00]reciter that recited on the podium to now becoming a great reciter

[5:06]that who recites on the international stage right so the so that

[5:09]Evolution then re um involves what the the gradual development of something

[5:15]so now that's in terms of linguistic usage in linguistics and in

[5:22]terms of usage next we want to move on to how is

[5:24]it used as a term in science well evolution in itself in

[5:30]its meaning at its core has the same as the linguistic meaning

[5:33]but it is of two types Evolution that is micro Evolution and

[5:39]macro Evolution now what are the differences between the two microevolution is

[5:45]considered to be the gradual changes within a species within a species

[5:50]as a result of natural selection this is what's called the survival

[5:53]of the fittest okay and this is what Darwin refers to in

[5:57]his book the origin of the species Ma mro evolution is considered

[6:02]to be the gradual change that causes one species to turn into

[6:08]a completely different species this is where we have a point of

[6:13]contention this is what we really need to discuss is there such

[6:19]a thing or not is there enough evidence of this or not

[6:21]okay Dr Khan yes muham so of course when we look at

[6:34]microevolution it's clear to us that it exists because we watch it

[6:40]on all the time on natural G National Geographic and on the

[6:45]Discovery Channel right we see the YouTube videos of the gazelle being

[6:49]chased by the Cheetahs right the weak gazelle is is killed and

[6:55]and uh and consumed by the cheetas and those that don't capture

[6:59]like that lonely lion that's withering away he doesn't have an ability

[7:02]to capture his own prey and so he ends up dying and

[7:08]his genes don't continue forward right instead the strong lion survives the

[7:14]strong gazelle survives right so this is agreed upon no two people

[7:18]will differ on as for macro Evolution to understand it we need

[7:23]to understand first Charles Darwin and his work the origin of the

[7:27]species Charles Darwin himself was was a scientist but he was a

[7:32]self-taught scientist he was actually a botanist his father was a physician

[7:39]he wanted him to be a doctor but he was too interested

[7:40]in Plants he would spend hours and days just going around in

[7:47]the fields and taking samples of flowers and plants and cataloging them

[7:51]he made such an extensive catalog that he would present it to

[7:58]the National to the Royal botney Society in the UK and they

[8:01]would um commend him for his work and they would encourage him

[8:07]to catalog all the plants of the world they suggested to him

[8:09]to actually do that so he approaches his father convinces his father

[8:14]to bankroll a trip around the world where he would document the

[8:21]plants of the world and he goes on this trip and with

[8:23]him is a MC map maker who would actually draw out the

[8:27]map of the world in his trip while he's on on a

[8:29]strip he gets to an area called the gpus islands and what

[8:33]does he notice he notices between the islands that there are Finches

[8:37]these finches they all look the same but their beaks differ he

[8:41]noticed that the reason why there were differences in their beaks from

[8:46]one Island to the other is because of a difference in their

[8:49]diet he found that some of the finches ate worms so they

[8:51]had long beaks While others ate seeds so they had shorter stubby

[8:57]beaks and so on he realized that that through natural selection which

[9:01]is a term that he actually used he used the term natural

[9:05]selection right in his book the origin of the species he said

[9:09]that this is a natural adaptation as a result of natural selection

[9:13]that has helped these birds adapt to the environment they're in so

[9:17]that they can have so that they can actually uh eat the

[9:23]diet that's available on the island where they exist nowhere in his

[9:28]book does he mention that humans came from age nowhere in his

[9:32]book the origin of the species does he mention that humans were

[9:34]at one point aquatic then they became amphibious then they became um

[9:41]Homo erectus and then Homo sapiens or before that even Apes nowhere

[9:44]in the origin of the species does he say that humans were

[9:46]originally Apes in chapter six of his book this is the only

[9:51]thing that he mentions about the change of one species to another

[9:55]he says that he observed a bear and the bear was in

[10:02]the water catching fish he said he noticed that that Bear's mouth

[10:05]was open as he was trying to Usher the fish into his

[10:10]mouth he noticed the similarity between this fishing style or method and

[10:15]that of a whale the whale would also open up its mouth

[10:22]right allowing the fish to enter to enter so he said I

[10:26]can perhaps see how in the future a bear can turn turn

[10:32]into a whale all right so that's the only thing that he

[10:34]mentioned in his book so if you read the entire book that's

[10:38]the only thing he doesn't actually give proof that this can happen

[10:43]none none at all but rather his statement is very speculative and

[10:49]it's completely unscientific why because I might enter the ocean open up

[10:53]my mouth and Usher some fish into my mouth right does that

[10:55]mean that now you know I'm going to turn into a whale

[10:59]that makes absolutely no scientific or logical sense in order to make

[11:03]such a statement a scientist must show evidence empirical evidence that such

[11:08]a thing would actually occur and he had none and in actual

[11:14]fact the statement itself clearly clearly contradicts what we've learned in school

[11:21]today as a point of fact that humans originally were um you

[11:25]know animals fish and then they moved on to the Earth the

[11:30]land and they became amphibious and then after that they turned into

[11:34]whatever apes and then humans and that sort of thing or they

[11:36]were single cell organisms and that's where they started and then this

[11:39]Evolution happened not only is this not mentioned in Charles Darwin's book

[11:47]right but this unfortunately has been taught to us as though it's

[11:54]fact when really it's completely unfactual so now we we need to

[12:02]address the issue of this idea then that we're taught that humans

[12:05]came from apes because really that's what evolution is in terms of

[12:08]how we're taught it in school agreed if you agree say I

[12:14]agree so let's address that in order to be able to prove

[12:20]that a human came from an ape the anthropologists and the paleontologists

[12:24]and the you know the the uh uh the scientists quote unquote

[12:31]and you'll see why I said quote unquote in a minute okay

[12:37]these scientists specifically they wanted wholeheartedly to be able to connect between

[12:42]the ape and the human why because they saw similarities right in

[12:45]the hands in the uh the fact that they walk erectly the

[12:49]fact their eyes you know um how they might reason right so

[12:55]they wanted to find a link that link they called The Missing

[13:00]Link and there are many many forms of this Missing Link and

[13:04]I want to mention a few of them I want to mention

[13:08]a few of them for to you first they suggested it was

[13:10]Neanderthal man then they suggested it was javaman then they suggested it

[13:17]was piltdown man then they suggested it was Tong child then they

[13:20]suggested it was heidleberg man then they suggested it was Homo habilis

[13:24]then they suggested it was Lucy and then they suggested it was

[13:27]Alex right a alicus CA those are all it's a you know

[13:33]mouthful so I had to read it to you right these are

[13:38]at least eight suggested missing links none of them were proven to

[13:41]be the missing link none the last ones turned out to be

[13:47]small Apes that's it now even though when they discovered them they

[13:51]made it seem as though this is fact then later on when

[13:58]their claims were discredited thankfully they came out and said oh no

[14:02]we were mistaken sorry oops but in modern curricula today it's still

[14:09]being taught as point of fact am I right if I'm right

[14:14]say you're right am I right if I'm right say I'm right

[14:17]S I always tell my wife to tell me I'm right I

[14:22]love to hear that I'm right anyway so so what happens then

[14:27]is okay so there's they abandon this idea of the Missing Link

[14:31]so the scientific Community actually abandoned the idea of the missing link

[14:36]why because they weren't able to um show any evidence of it

[14:40]now why why is it that such a claim would be made

[14:45]and and I want to give you a simple example I was

[14:49]watching the Discovery Channel one day and um this paleontologist has discovered

[14:54]the head of what looked to be uh canine's skull canine head

[15:00]so he took it into his lab and he 3D scanned it

[15:03]then he brought a CD a CGI artist a 3D artist and

[15:08]after he scanned the 3D skull he told him I want you

[15:13]to make the spine so he made a spine for him he

[15:15]said well what do you want the spine to look like he

[15:16]said well because he has a big head I picture him like

[15:19]a pitbull so give him a a kind of a a wide

[15:23]short spine he said okay he said what about the legs he

[15:27]said back legs need to be short and stubby front legs very

[15:29]similar to a pitbull he said okay said what about the tail

[15:34]long short he said no no no short exactly like a like

[15:36]a pitbull where's the evidence no evidence this is all speculative because

[15:40]all he has is what a skull right then he says to

[15:46]him okay what about the muscles he puts the muscles on thick

[15:49]muscles in the back you know stubby uh is this a is

[15:54]this uh a short dog yes it's shorter and in his mind

[15:58]he thought Pitbull you know Pitbull and bulldog then he says to

[16:02]him what about the fur is it long or is it short

[16:06]he says short did he get all this information from extracting the

[16:09]DNA from the skull no he was making it up as he

[16:14]went along then he said okay what about the color of the

[16:15]coat the fur he said gray he said oh and put some

[16:21]stripes on his back long Stripes short he said no no no

[16:24]short Stripes short Stripes it looks better that way where's the science

[16:29]that's completely unscientific to do right how could you do something like

[16:32]that and then sell it as though it's point of fact let's

[16:34]look at for example Gregor mendal everybody's heard of Gregor mendal melian

[16:38]genetics right we learn it as point of fact in high school

[16:44]and in college turns out mle's quadrants were completely false he actually

[16:51]fudged his results yes complete Shem complete lie okay why did he

[16:56]do this why do certain scientists do this there are three reasons

[17:03]that this could happen one is notoriety and fame they want to

[17:07]be known for discovering something two any good researcher will tell you

[17:13]and I know we have some phds here right any good researcher

[17:17]will tell you grant dollars and funding if I want to continue

[17:20]research I need the grant dollars so I have to show that

[17:24]I've discovered something that no one else has discovered or I'm on

[17:27]the brink of discovering something right last last ly you know who

[17:32]is funding these projects that's the next thing I need to look

[17:37]at the third reason is who's funding who's who are the patrons

[17:40]right who's who wants to control the narrative right Whoever has power

[17:45]and money wants to control that narrative whoever is giving money to

[17:48]the universities and we've seen that recently huh right when the head

[17:53]of Harvard and MIT and the Wharton School of Business University of

[17:57]Pennsylvania were placed in front of Congress and they were GR drilled

[18:00]you know do you believe in this state or not you know

[18:05]do you believe this is and we saw it who's funding who

[18:08]determines what's right and what's wrong whoever is funding you see they

[18:13]have that level of control they want to control the narrative so

[18:17]the next thing then that they suggested to us after the missing

[18:21]link is well now what about the human gen Genome Project right

[18:26]now this is a project that sought to basically map the human

[18:30]genome and part of that work was to even was to look

[18:35]at animal uh uh genetics as well and compare it to human

[18:41]genetics so the scientists now they C they come to us and

[18:44]what do they say they say hang on but 99% of an

[18:50]Apes genes genetics are the same as a human being so we

[18:56]must be ancestors yeah Subhan Allah really how do we respond we

[19:01]say look 37% of the geneses of a of a fruit fly

[19:04]are shared with us does that mean our ancestors are fruit flies

[19:16]that is so unscientific and illogical right instead what we should be

[19:22]looking at is what obviously the answer is no right it's a

[19:27]rhetorical question right but why is it that we have similarities you

[19:29]know why is it that certain Creations these creations have similarities in

[19:35]their genes well the reason why is because we have the same

[19:37]base code that's why right so if we're the type of animal

[19:43]that has eyes then on our genetic code in our DNA we'll

[19:48]have an area for eyes right so we'll be similar because we

[19:51]all have eyes um let's say we have limbs an insect has

[19:54]limbs we have limbs so we share limbs right in the genetic

[20:00]code uh we have a head guess what insects have a head

[20:05]an abdomen right a thorax you see so all of these shared

[20:10]variables become part of the DNA which means then that the base

[20:16]code is the same now any good programmer and I was talking

[20:19]to some programmers in Silicon Valley and we were talking about this

[20:22]and they they said to me one of them said to the

[20:26]other he said when you have a good base code right do

[20:31]you ever rewrite it and make a new base code or do

[20:32]you build on that same base code any good programmer will tell

[20:36]you what mammad Ali that's how you know you use the same

[20:39]base code right yeah okay and not just that that the base

[20:45]code is like an essay that a writer would write okay it's

[20:47]it the base code is exactly like the style of an essayist

[20:52]an essay that is written by someone reflects the style and the

[20:56]character and the characteristics of the author AG agreed and the same

[21:01]goes with a program that is written by a programmer the base

[21:05]code is reflective of what of the author of that code am

[21:09]I right yes so that means then we all have the same

[21:14]programmer that's what it means that's simply what it means right and

[21:21]any logical person will agree with this we ask that Allah subhana

[21:28]wa ta'ala allows us and inall to continue this discourse so that

[21:31]we can come closer and closer to Allah it's important for us

[21:34]to look at these points of confusion and these suggestions and be

[21:37]able to have the answers and know how to respond inshallah I

[21:41]look forward inshallah tomorrow to continuing with a new until then we

[21:55]say

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