Islam and Science 4/4: Evolution: Scientific or conspiracy theory?

0:00 Outline
1:00 Introduction
1:18 The New/Jew Atheists
22:21 Answers in Genesis
27:38 Apologetics Roadshow
28:10 Vatican
28:46 Templeton Foundation
29:37 Royal Aal Al-Bayt Institute for Islamic Thought
31:57 Sapience Institute / Dawah Bros.
33:17 Bayyinah Institute
33:45 Yaqeen Institute and affiliates (Zaytouna College, Al-Maghrib Institute, etc.)
38:38 Harun Yahya, etc.
48:46 Muslim Brotherhood
53:47 Mutasallifa
58:39 Analysis
1:00:35 Creation theories
1:09:22 Islamic doctrine
1:20:39 Neo-Darwinism
1:25:20 Commensurable theories?
1:47:45 Darwinist critique of Islam
1:59:11 Islamic critique of Darwinism
2:15:26 Analysis
2:29:08 Conclusion

INTRODUCTION

Seyyed Hossein Nasr wrote concerning the significance of Darwinism that “There are few issues today as important for discussion and as insidious in its implications as this theory of evolution. First of all, let me say at the beginning that I have studied not only physics but also geology and paleontology at Harvard, and so it is with this background that I reject the ordinary understanding of the Darwinian theory of evolution even on scientific grounds.” He further wrote that “The theory of evolution is the peg of the tent of modernism. And if it were to fall down, the whole tent would fall on top of the head of modernism”; see “On the Question of Biological Origins” (Winter 2006) 4:2 Islam & Science 182.

HYPOTHESES

On one hand is the Darwinian hypothesis that life evolved from one or a few basic organisms under what Richard Dawkins called “The mindless brutality of nature”; see gbs Koblenz, “Richard Dawkins - The Genius of Charles Darwin - Part 2” (5 Jul 2013) YouTube. Alfred Tennyson similarly described “Nature, red in tooth and claw” in Canto LVI. On the other hand is the ‘God hypothesis’ that an omniscient, omnipotent, and just God created the universe and life.

Dawkins called God a “racist “megalomaniacal” “pestilential” “bully”, which is analogous to his mindlessly brutal nature-God, Pan. Moreover, such qualities can’t be attributed to a fictional entity but to actual Zionists, British imperialists and white supremacists like Dawkins and his cabal.

HERMENEUTICS

Islam is different from Judaism and Christianity, which are anthropomorphic and thus tend toward more ‘literalist’ interpretations.

The Qur’an and Hadith provide many examples of evolution, such as the diversification of languages and religions, and evolution to angels or beasts; cp. TED, “The Link Between Evolution and Language” (12 Oct 2025) YouTube.

Another example is the evolution of scriptures, which are lost, forged, or corrupted, and refreshed from time to time (Qur’an 2:106) while the truth is invariable. Indeed, revelation from an Islamic perspective is a form of discovery or re-discovery, as opposed to lies that cover (Kafir) the truth. The Qur’an’s strongest argument in its favor is an evolutionary one, namely: produce a better chapter (vv. 2:23, 11:13, 17:88). The shortest chapter in the Qur’an is a super prophecy or prediction: “We have given you the Fountain [of Life]. So, pray to your Lord and sacrifice. Your enemies will be uprooted” (Qur’an 108). Many have tried to destroy Islam or outlive it. So far, they all failed.

The question is if humans in particular evolved from apelike humanoids. The Qur’an and Hadith make it clear that people who don’t follow divine law are apes (Qur’an 7:166) and that a variety of demons are less intelligent humanoids who can interbreed with humans and thus belong to the same species from a biological perspective (e.g., Qur’an 55:56). While a reading of Adam, which literally means earth and man, as a proper noun or a historical individual like Jesus is possible, almost every verse and Hadith about Adam is explicitly symbolic, though not immaterial, variously referring to the earth, the microcosm, the first man, any man, human nature, or people in general.

The issues, as the video elaborates, are what are the so-called “creationist” and “evolutionist” ideologies that are being propagated, who is propagating them, and why?

MIRACLES

The Qur’an says that skeptics are wont to explain away miracles as a myth, an illusion (a magic trick), or a natural phenomenon (e.g., 6:25, etc.). A skeptic like David Hume, for example, might argue that since miracles are highly improbable events, disbelief is always more evident. This sort of reasoning admits no outliers, which is innately biased. Ironically, the same reasoning would dismiss the theory of evolution, given the improbability of life or any evolutionary path.

REDUCTIONISM

Atheists like Richard Dawkins assume that everything must come from something simpler. However, this incorrectly assumes that information accrues, which violates the laws of thermodynamics; see, e.g., AstroEye, “RICHARD DAWKINS ABOUT THE ORIGIN OF EVERYTHING” (24 Mar 2023) YouTube. It also incorrectly assumes that God is a complex being, since God isn’t supposed to be a composite or contingent being, unlike any other.

The ideas of New Atheists aren’t new. That people come from stars or animals, for example, is analogous to ancient Egyptian and Mesopotamian theologies and cosmogonies. Likewise, the notion that life ultimately arose from a fluctuating vacuum is analogous to the ancient concept of a primordial chaos or sea whence life arose, to which the Qur’an compares the words of God (v. 18:109).

WATER INTO MIND

Darwinists, who are essentially materialists, are riddled by the existence of mind. Instead of turning water into mind, they try to turn it into wind by arguing that minds don’t exist or ‘explaining’ them away as magic tricks, like Daniel Dennett, which is magical thinking.

Scientists, however, are not interested in speculations about the origin of life, species, or minds. They are interested in engineering, which is intelligent design; or stupid design, if things make themselves. But that is not what we observe.

Dawkins admits that matter is a “useful fiction” in “Middle World” (the ecosystem humans inhabit); see TED, “Why the universe seems so strange | Richard Dawkins” (16 Jan 2007) YouTube. Indeed, materialism—the theory of the Democritan atom or solid particles that mechanically interact—is scientifically false. Most energy, for example, isn’t baryonic matter, and phenomena like quantum entanglement and “spooky action at a distance”, such as gravity and electromagnetism, are inconsistent with materialism.

When one considers Dawkins’ mission to eradicate the “mind virus” of Islam with his cabal—many of whom are connected to the Israeli government and Jeffrey Epstein; that Dennett’s father worked for the CIA against Muslims; and that their “science” is conveniently aligned with their Zionist agenda and Talmudic and Kabbalist doctrines, the whole thing seems more like a psy-op than sci-ence.

MORALITY

Karl Marx sent a copy of Das Kapital to Darwin with a handwritten note: “From a devoted admirer to Charles Darwin.” In The Descent of Man (1871), Darwin described some human groups as "savage", "low", and "degraded", and compared African and Indigenous peoples to apes. He also wrote that “we may hope” that in the near future “the Caucasian” “will almost certainly exterminate, and replace the savage races throughout the world” creating a wider rift between man and apes than exists “between the negro or Australian and the gorilla”; see Conner Cliff, “Evolution vs. Creationism: In Defense of Scientific Thinking” (Nov 1980) Int’l Socialist Rev (Monthly Magazine Supplement to the Militant).

Darwin, like Dawkins, also specifically anticipated the eradication of Muslims, writing that “The more civilized so-called Caucasian races have beaten the Turkish hollow in the struggle for existence. Look to the world at no very distant date, what an endless number of the lower races will have been eliminated by the higher civilized races throughout the world”; see Gertrude Himmelfarb, “Darwin and the Darwinian Revolution” (Chatto & Windus, London, 1959) at 348.

Thus, to argue like Dawkins and his cabal that Darwin wasn’t a genocidal racist Islamophobe like them is intellectually dishonest in the extreme.

PREDICTION

Dawkins predicts, like Darwin, that religion will go extinct; see Thinkable and 2 more, “Richard Dawkins and Steven Pinker predict the future of religion!” (22 Nov 2025) YouTube. Islam similarly predicts that Islam will prevail over all religions or ideologies (Qur’an 9:33). At least one of them must therefore be incorrect. That is the test of ch. 108 of the Qur’an, mentioned previously.

New Atheism is not a new idea but the oldest. The law “Do as thou wilt” has been tried many times and failed every time, which is why it is presented as a new idea to ignorant people. Scriptures survive—and thus evolve—as a set of instructions that are instrumental for survival; otherwise, they’d perish with or be abandoned by their followers. Nihilism, which—from an informational perspective—is a form of self-direction, typically manifests in members of a body at brain death, when they no longer receive higher instructions, and only lasts briefly before they perish.

Dawkins and Ayaan Hirsi Ali call Islam a “mind virus”; that is, an intangible entity with the ability to replicate and control people’s minds—literally, a demon. The kind Dawkins pretends not to believe but would accept a Nobel Prize for calling a “meme”. Yet, New Atheism is a mental illness by Ali’s admission, and the British Empire is a dead and decomposing body with mortal enemies everywhere and irreversibly failing birthrates. This has prompted Ali and Dawkins to capitulate as ‘cultural Anglicans’ in a desperate bid to survive; see Stoyan Zaimov, “I Guess I'm a Cultural Christian (5 Mar 2013) Christian Post Reporter.

While the Qur’an refers to people who disobey the law of God (the law of life) as apes, and lawless people—who consume everything—as swine, the Hadith compare a Muslim to a date palm, which takes little and gives much (Bukhari 3:4). Thus, the prognosis is clear.

JEWS AND “GENTILE HEADS”

New Atheists aren’t really atheists but Zionists pulling the strings against Islam, which they perceive as an existential threat. That their cosmology is Jewish for example isn’t an atheist win.

New Atheists basically believe in everything Muslims do with a veneer of science, including aliens (angels), a God particle (God), and memes (demons). They—like Dawkins—now impossibly seek to resurrect their slain culture by postmodernism, including trans ideology, they inculcated; see, e.g., Truth is Reality, “We have to create our own purpose in life!” (8 May 2023) YouTube.

New Atheists also pretend to support science, except when it comes to their identification as the fictional “Lost Tribes” of Israel or their pretensions to be the supreme race or having the highest IQ despite having no culture of their own. This has caused psychologists to diagnose pathological “whiteness”; see, e.g., Donald Moss, “On Having Whiteness” (Apr 2021) J Am Psychoanal Assoc 69:2 355-371.

Indeed, the fiction of Judeo-Christian Western civilization (a manifold anachronism and oxymoron) is a combination of wishful thinking, delusions of grandeur, multiple personality disorder, Stockholm syndrome, and Jerusalem syndrome, since Romans (Westerners) didn’t consider barbarian invaders to be Western or civilized; nor are they the original Jews or Christians from the Middle East and North Africa, who are almost all Muslims today.