The Mahdi Times The Mahdi Times, Issue #22, September 2014 | Page 5

directly that is entirely different, and there is no one that says fish evolved to amphibians directly. And even at the stage of fish that move on mud by their fins, there is no one ever saying that a fish living in water transferred to an amphibious fish (mudskipper). And some people misconstrue evolution in that the habits don’t get transferred, while he does not know the priorities of evolution, and the differentiation intended is a gene differentiation and not a differentiation of habit or behavior. So walking on two feet that distinguish mankind for example didn’t happen from the result of a habit – the habit itself has no value – because it is not hereditary. What is happening is a process of natural selection, to members that contain their preferred genes. In general, denying evolution today is like denying that the earth was round back in the times. And the rational evidences that the Qur’an presents does not clash against the theory of evolution. So evidence for what is non-existent is not capable of producing – “Or were they created without a thing, or are they creators” (Toor:35). This does not clash against the theory of evolution and no one would picture that there is a clash with it except an ignorant. Yes, it is possible to assume that there is a clash with the theory of the Big Bang taking into consideration the M-theory and quantum theory, you can interpret the appearance of the universe from non-existence and this is a universal theory wider than the limitations of this earth.