11.
RELIGION VS.
DARWINISM
When Darwin first published his treatise Origin of Species in 1859, he stirred a thunderous
opposition from religious groups.
The religious opposition was based mainly upon two factors:
(1) Darwin asserted - with...
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11.
RELIGION VS.
DARWINISM
When Darwin first published his treatise Origin of Species in 1859, he stirred a thunderous
opposition from religious groups.
The religious opposition was based mainly upon two factors:
(1) Darwin asserted - with convincing proofs - that the Universe was not made in 6 days, as
described in the Bible, but in a very long time with so many stage between first state and the
present form; and
(2) He denied - without any valid reason, of course - the need of a Supreme Being (God) in the
scheme of the Universe.
The Jews and Christians of that time believed in the 6-day creation quite literally; they could not
swallow the idea of the protracted creation easily.
And so the conflict between Christianity and
Science reached its climax in the later half of the 19th century.
But what about the Muslims?
The Qur an says that the skies and the earth were created in 6 Aiyam .
The word Aiyam has two
meanings: days and periods .
The Sunni co
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