Title of article :
New insights into the processes of biological evolution and human reproduction provided through a dialogue between science and Qur’an
Author/Authors :
chaabani, hassen university of monastir - faculty of pharmacy - laboratory of human genetics and anthropology, Monastir, Tunisia
Abstract :
In this paper I present new insights into the processes of biologicalevolution and human reproduction in the light of a dialogue between the currentscientific knowledge and Qur‟an verses. I demonstrate how this dialogue could providenew complementary information and a more comprehensive state of each of these twoprocesses. After clearing up some confusions and uncertainties related to the biologicalevolution process I propose a new vision for this process considering that the Creator(Allah) of the entire Universe had organized and supervised the emergence of livingbeings depending on a wonderful evolutionary plan. As this vision is hopefully inagreement with my interpretations of related Qur‟an verses, I concretize it from them.One of scientific paintings deduced from these verses shows how our humankindemerged at the top of a complex network of evolutionary stages evolved from the earthlike the emergence of the upper part of the top of a tree. To the second biologicalprocess „Human Reproduction‟ Allah gives a more accurate designation „HumanPicturing Creation‟ insisting on the fact that the major acts of this process do not happenrandomly but under His supervision. Moreover Allah given to the major elements ofthis process, wonderful designations including some unnoticed details through superbrhetoric formats peculiar to Qur‟an. At the end of this paper I point out that myinterpretations of Qur‟an verses, based on new rigorous methodology, are generallydifferent from the existing ones showing how the latter include errors and distortionsmaking them incompatible with science. More bad consequences, such as terrorism,have been the result of erroneous interpretations of some verses on socio-politicalissues. To solve this problem of erroneous interpretations and related falseconsiderations that have accumulated through the ages and were merged into cultures ofMuslim societies, I call for a “First International Real Renewal of Islam”
Keywords :
Qur‟an interpretation , Biological evolution , Supernatural Creator , Limits ofscience , Human reproduction , Picturing creation , Human gametes , Human zygote , Human embryogenesis , Real Renewal of Islam
Journal title :
International Journal of Modern Anthropology
Journal title :
International Journal of Modern Anthropology