Science has also benefited from many Muslim scientist who...

Science has also benefited from many Muslim scientist who have contributed to various fields of science from early days to today, the disagreement stems from the interpretations of some of the definitions and interpretations within both Islam and scientists, as neither do all scientists fail to agree with the developed theories nor do all Muslims concur in the deduction of meanings of the Quranic Verses.

We start with some examples, citing first those which apparently show disagreement in Islam and science! The concept of Evolution – Darwin: In the work of Charles Darwin (1809- 1882), Darwin wrote about the theory of evolution by natural selection. The idea that humans shared a ‘common ancestor’ with apes was a challenge to the foundations of human civilisation, and challenged to Christian orthodoxy. The theory has since then been updated and refined.

[25] Islam’s objection to the theory of Evolution: Darwin in his book ‘On the Origin of Species’, observed that a group of Finches pecking away, each had different sized beaks, which enabled some to peck and reach inside particular sized holes while others weren’t able to reach. [26] This became the basis of Darwin’s theory of evolution. Darwin argued that in order to survive and adapt to their environments, animals as we find today, have evolved over a very long duration of time.

Later on, the same concept was further strengthened, i.e., “the survival of the fittest”. Now with the emergence of modern genetics and the “Modern Synthesis” the topic of evolution is a very broad and in-depth field of science. Many evolutionists believe that life not only evolved from ‘an unknown minute origin’, but also appeared in the beginning by random chances and permutations. [27] But they don’t have an answer to how the first creation was formed, again they say it was by chance?

Islam Says: God is the creator of all Things: In Quran, God says: That is Allah, your Lord. There is no god but He, the Creator of all things, therefore worship Him, and He is the Disposer of all things [6:102] An atheist came and asked from the 6 th successor of Prophet (c. 702–765 CE) [28] : ‘Aren’t you claiming that Allah Created all things?’ The 6 th successor of Prophet replied: ‘Yes’. He said to him, ‘I (also) create’.

At that, he (the successor) said, ‘How do you create?’ He said, ‘I excrete in a place, then I leave from it, and insects come to be, therefore I am the one who created these’.