complete heretics at that time his
name's not coming to me is very well
known and he wanted to upend
distribution of the old and say no we
have to go on so Hippocrates was
appearance and some of these theories
are correct and others are wrong but the
one of the sicknesses
of Western civilization was it took
these authorities as absolute truth and
when these authorities were completely
turned upside down it becomes
iconoclastic against all authority and
this is where we're at now I mean we
attacked all authorities but really what
we're tacking most often is the
authority of tradition and what we
celebrate and what we exalt ourselves in
is whatever the dominant thing now we're
in the modern world it's here and now
forget the past and Islam says no we
honor the past we honor the past and
Islam says that the task has great
wisdom to impart to us and what modern
Western tradition Thanos the past is
something let's just discard it let's
get rid of it so I think really it's
very unfortunate that so many imposes
just to make myself perfectly clear here
I don't in any way agrees with what is
known as the fundamentalist Christian
position which is called scientific
creationism I do not believe in that at
all and I think it's actually quite
absurd and I think I would have a very
difficult time in my face if my face
taught me to do so with 6,000 years old
my face was not teaching me that the
Quran said that God created the heavens
and earth in six days and it says 1
minus enamines old and we didn't get
tired in other words God doesn't get
worn out from doing if God is either
all-powerful or he's not I need to get
tired we're in bad shape because maybe
he'll get tired of putting up with all
that the move in the direction of
religious arrogance though let us recall
the very religious people who claims to
be going along the way the religious
truth
and following long long religious
traditions when they sanction slavery
over the century they'd accept all of
our traditions have done that certain
engaged in owning even being and
treating them as something less
consuming this ideas of the dignity of
all human beings took us a while to
demonstrate and so I think our religious
who's also developed are certainly
archaeology results our understanding of
what the text means develops I'm not
sure looking we have complete absolute
control understanding the text from
repeating each other then developed the
Atlantic do not let you not really going
to garden series because of the fact
that God is the creator and garden is
the ugly 14th was the fastener I think
Sebastian's are a fan of your work of
everything what I'm not here about is
two things 1i mentor what is the
conflict regarding the Creator in
fashion and evolution okay ever want
remember two reasons is there anything
specifically in the Quran himself that
precludes the theory of evolution after
that I my point was is that when we say
that we believe in adamant the first
human being and and his companion holla
or ease we believe that they were
created in that form in other words that
they were that God created them in that
form they were created in the form of
man and it is the dignified form it is
not an it is not a form that is is
the denigrate man in fact the Quran says
karramna bani adam' we have honored
Benny Adam and and one of the
interpretations traditional is that
Benny Adam walks upright one of the
interpretations is that Benny Adam was
given an opposable thumb that is
actually a classical interpretation that
the human being can have that God has
given us the ability to use our hands in
ways that animals don't have so we
believe that this form that we are on
use the form of Adam and the prophets
told us that the worst human being was
Adam and Adam had this form he did not
have the form of of an animal he had the
form of a human being which yes there
are aspects that we share with animals
but we are merely an animal we are
called in fact the earth Arabic or the
Muslim theologians called a Cylon not a
speaking animal which which is very
different from rational animal in the
Western sense but a speaking animals
that God has honored us with speech with
the ability to speak and and I think our
difficulty with evolution is that
evolution again at its most fundamental
level is eliminating the Creator and I
think a lot of people missed this point
although there are biologists who are
Christians are biologists who are Jewish
and and might believe that god yes God
is moving in mysterious ways the Pope
just recently announced that natural
selection was one of the ways that God
works in his creation for the
evolutionist who is really really deeply
rooted in evolution this is kind of
absurd because they actually feel that
there is random selection going on in
other words there's trial and error and
this is something really important with
in evolutionary theory you have to
believe in the concept of trial and
error that that God is somehow not
really a he's not a perfect creator you
know messing around he you know in fact
I talked cartoon one of the dinosaurs
and and there was a cloud up there and
the voice coming out of
cloud saying cool and it said God as an
adolescent right and this is the kind of
idea that I think a lot of evolutionists
have that somehow you know we the
appliances as a lot of a lesson of how
to paint blessed is God's the best of
creators the most perfect of groups and
then it says quite clearly in the pond
shut up not in sauna the acting in
Kathleen we have created the human being
in the best catcher now house itself is
the creation we believe that n and it
says in the pond that Adam a dissident
was fashioned by God that God formed
Adam and so this idea that you know
we're moving from a unit failure and
again like Bashar then who i think has
some really dangerous ideas in terms of
classical theology and one of the ideas
is this idea that we're moving towards
perfection is no us fear and and one of
his ideas is that that Christ actually
came at a point where we had reached in
our evolution and his second coming
would be at a point where we are at a
higher stage of evolution which i think
is very very antithetical to a
traditional theological position that
that is that we in fact are moving down
that things are getting worse that
Christ returns when there's a war than
rumors of wars and famines and false
prophets and all the rest that human
beings actually are in a much worse
condition now than they were a thousand
years ago or two thousand from a Muslim
perspect on speaking as a Muslim we
believe that we are getting worse we are
not getting better and evolution is
based on this idea of progress that we
are moving towards a better state note
the the Islamic position very clear we
are moving down and that the end of the
human being is complete degradation but
this is the final space of the last
people on earth and the Prophet Muhammad
said the end of time will not come until
no one is left to say God God and he
said in the end of time will not come
except upon the worst people the worst
human beings and we can see now in in
modern
Erica you know when pornography is is
the number one media in this country
when human beings have reached a level
of human degradation that was beyond the
pale for classical people really i mean
just extraordinary state of affairs all
of the exploitation is going on the
world i would contest that there is more
slavery and bondage now than there ever
has been in the history of human
societies I would contest that the
grossest and greatest abuses of human
beings are taking place in all over the
world you go down to South America you
go to Africa and look and many of these
places are places that the the so-called
religious people of those places
thinking about religious righteousness
our advisors in the government and
things like this so I have know that you
know religious people or
self-righteousness or religious
self-righteousness there is one of the
age-old diseases of the human being you
know waxing self-righteous about his own
religiosity right and certainly a
terrible state to be in so I you know I
think that that is really at the crux of
it is in my tapioca Matthew essentially
intent is that they sir are going to
just keep on getting worse boom we're
heading down and it's going fast and one
of the interesting things right if you
think about it you know it's one of the
modern phenomenon is speak everything's
speeding up we're all experiencing will
speed of the downward motion is not an
outward motion as things move up to
actually slow down right so when human
things are moving up things slow down we
start becoming more tranquil more
content know people are becoming more
anxious they're becoming more wired
right I mean we don't were not content
with 286 we want 386 now we want for it
now we want pentium now we want people
now this computer is to slow you know
this why can't this a fax machine work
faster what's going on I mean this is
and the problem concept and I get it to
a mini chef on speed is from Satan you
know so we would say that the ancients a
very very ancient people Abraham was
deeply deeply spiritually evolved
individual
in a tent according to islamic tradition
and yet we believe that he was probably
one of the most enlightened and
spiritually aware human beings that has
ever existed he was also interesting how
life began according to the plan because
he asked God show me how you bring life
from the dead and God says don't you
believe Abraham and Abraham system in
the pond I believe but in order to give
some stillness to my heart I want to
witness it and God showed him how he
brought something from in a dead
inanimate to life so he was a scientist
from a Muslim perspective Abraham was a
scientist but he was a scientist that
wanted his science to increase his faith
to increase his closeness to God and and
what I see happening in the in the
modern world is the science is
distancing us from God it is a false
prophet and I believe in many ways that
that science now is in fact it is a type
of Antichrist the it is a false god and
people are taking it as a false god and
it promises it promises us salvation and
it will betray us in the end and it
might well be our destruction concerns
that the bowling center I excitement