How Can Atheistic Evolutionary Science Clarify Creation-related Matters in Scriptures?

O Learned and Devoted Servants of God,

[Dr. Nikhil asked: But Darwin’s theory of evolution and biology in general, does not include God to explain how life evolved.

Darwin’s original theory of evolution, which is based on natural selection, later gave way to the ‘modern evolutionary synthesis’, which unified Darwin’s evolution with the genetics od Gregor Mendel. Even this modern evolutionary synthesis is also mainly based on natural selection.

Personally, Darwin was most probably a theist. He lost his faith in traditional Christianity, later in life. But it is claimed that he returned to the Christian faith on deathbed. In any case, he did not explicitly deny God. However, the theory evolution, be it the original Darwinian evolution or the modern synthesis, is one of the major pieces of evidence that atheists depend on to claim that life does not need God to evolve.

This atheistic claim is against the philosophies of all religions including, Islam, Christianity and Hinduism.

So, how can the devotee get more clarity about Quranic references related to the creation of life by God from the atheistic evolutionary science?

Swami replied: I am not criticizing the theory of evolution or any other discovery of science because I am also a scientist fully believing the value of science, which is based on experimental validity and not on mere theoretical gossip. I agree with the scientific procedure involved in the preparation of a cup of coffee. I am not denying the scientific laws of heat in heating the milk and the scientific laws of solubility of sugar and coffee powder in the milk before forming the coffee. I am telling that a person got headache and wanted to prepare and drink a cup of coffee. The person went into kitchen, prepared a cup of coffee and drank it. I am only adding the intellectual part (Nimittam) to your inert materials (material part) like milk, heat, sugar and coffee powder (Upaadanam). I am not opposing your part, but adding the other part to your part to make your part meaningful. You cannot say that the milk got headache and wished to prepare a cup of coffee! A wise western philosopher gave this explanation to scientists as you (Dr. Nikhil) also know very well. There are some philosophies, which treat God only as intellectual cause and the basic inert energy as the material cause. According to such philosophies only, I am completing your story of creation. Of course, the main philosophy says that God is omnipotent to act as intellectual cause as well as material causes (abhinna nimittopaadaanam). This main philosophy has no worldly example since there is no item with omnipotence in this imaginable world. Of course, creation of magic by a magician can be given as an example with certain limitations like assuming the magic to be true since we, the spectators, are unable to know the hidden techniques. If we assume that the unknown magic is a true creation of magician, we can give this as a perfect example. If you want an exact example, it is also available in this world as we see a genuine miracle happening from the will of God-man in which both intellectual and material cause is the God-man Himself. The point to be noted here is that this example is also the original concept since the God-man is mediated God. This is an advanced concept in the spiritual knowledge and I am not touching it to create confusion in this initial state. I cling to the basic initial philosophy only that explains God as intellectual cause (pot maker) and some primary inert material (mud) as the material cause for creation of this world. In this stage, establishment of existence of God is important for which the basic initial philosophy is sufficient.

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