Stop it bro, Humanity is not 10k years old.
Young Earth creationism directly contradicts the
scientific consensus of the
scientific community. A 2006 joint statement of
InterAcademy Panel on International Issues (IAP) by 68 national and international science academies enumerated the scientific facts that young Earth creationism contradicts, in particular that the universe, the Earth, and life are billions of years old, that each has undergone continual change over those billions of years, and that life on Earth has evolved from a
common primordial origin into the diverse forms observed in the fossil record and present today.
[7]Evolutionary theory remains the only explanation that fully accounts for all the observations, measurements, data, and evidence discovered in the fields of
biology,
paleontology,
molecular biology,
genetics,
anthropology, and others.
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As such, young Earth creationism is dismissed by the academic and the scientific communities.
The vast majority of scientists refute young Earth creationism. Around the start of the 19th century mainstream science abandoned the concept that Earth was younger than millions of years.
[124]Measurements of biological, chemical, geological, and astronomical timescales differ from YEC's estimates of Earth's age by six
orders of magnitude (that is, by factor of a million times). Scientific estimates of the age of the
earliest pottery discovered, the
oldest known trees, the
ice cores, and layers of silt deposit in
Lake Suigetsu are all significantly older than the oldest YEC estimate of Earth's age. YEC's theories are further contradicted by scientists' ability to observe
galaxies billions of light years away.
Spokespersons for the
scientific community have generally regarded claims that YEC has a scientific basis as being religiously motivated
pseudoscience, because young Earth creationists only look for evidence to support their preexisting belief that the Bible is a literal description of the development of the Universe. In 1997, a poll by the Gallup organization showed that 5% of U.S. adults with professional degrees in science took a young Earth creationist view. In the aforementioned poll, 40% of the same group said they believed that life, including humans, had evolved over millions of years, but that God guided this process, a view described as
theistic evolution, while 55% held a view of "naturalistic evolution" in which no God took part in this process.
[125] Some scientists (such as
Hugh Ross and
Gerald Schroeder) who believe in creationism are known to subscribe to other forms, such as
old Earth creationism, which posits an act of creation that took place millions or billions of years ago, with variations on the timing of the creation of mankind.
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Muslims scholars do not believe in
Young Earth creationism.
Islamic views of the Bible vary. In recent years, a movement has begun to emerge in some Muslim countries promoting themes that have been characteristic of Christian creationists. This stance has received some criticism, due to claims that the Quran and Bible are incompatible.
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The influential historiographer and historian
Ibn Khaldun wrote in his famous book the
Muqaddimah or Prolegomena ("Introduction") of the "gradual process of creation":
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"One should then look at the world of creation. It started out from the minerals and progressed, in an ingenious, gradual manner, to plants and animals. The last stage of minerals is connected with the first stage of plants, such as herbs and seedless plants. The last stage of plants, such as palms and vines, is connected with the first stage of animals, such as snails and shellfish which have only the power of touch. The word "connection" with regard to these created things means that the last stage of each group is fully prepared to become the first stage of the next group. The animal world then widens, its species become numerous, and, in a gradual process of creation, it finally leads to man, who is able to think and to reflect. The higher stage of man is reached from the world of the monkeys, in which both sagacity and perception are found, but which has not reached the stage of actual reflection and thinking. At this point we come to the first stage of man after (the world of monkeys). This is as far as our (physical) observation extends."
Khalid Anees, of the
Islamic Society of Britain, has discussed the relationship between Islam and
evolution:
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"Islam also has its own school of
Evolutionary creationism/Theistic evolutionism, which holds that mainstream scientific analysis of the origin of the universe is supported by the Quran. Many Muslims believe in evolutionary creationism, especially among
Sunni and
ShiaMuslims and the
Liberal movements within Islam. Among scholars of Islam
İbrahim Hakkı of Erzurum who lived in
Erzurum then
Ottoman Empire now
Republic of Turkey in the 18th century is famous for stating that 'between plants and animals there is sponge, and, between animals and humans there is monkey'."
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A research paper published by the Yaqeen Institute for Islamic Research wrote that there is not a consensus among scholars on how to respond to the theory of evolution, and it is not clear whether the scholars are even qualified to give a response.
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The verse,"...and We made from water every living thing? Then will they not believe?"(21:30), is believed by evolutionary Muslims to refer to humans evolving in the oceans millions of years ago, as suggested by modern evolution.
[9]
In the 19th century a scholar of
Islamic revival,
Jamal-al-Din al-Afghānī agreed with Darwin that life will compete with other life in order to succeed. He also believed that there was competition in the realm of ideas similar to that of nature. However, he believed explicitly that life was created by God;
[10] Darwin did not discuss the origin of life, saying only "Probably all the organic beings which have ever lived on this earth have descended from some primordial form, into which life was first breathed".
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Islamic scholars
Ghulam Ahmed Pervez,
[12] Edip Yüksel,
[13][14] and T.O. Shanavas in his book,
Islamic Theory of Evolution: the Missing Link between Darwin and the Origin of Species[15] say that there is no contradiction between the scientific theory of evolution and Quran's numerous references to the emergence of life in the universe.
The
Ahmadiyya Muslim Movement's
view of evolution is that of universal acceptance, albeit divinely designed. The movement actively promotes god-directed "evolution". Over the course of several decades the movement issued various publications in support of the scientific concepts behind evolution.
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In Turkey, important scholars strove to accommodate the theory of evolution in Islamic scripture during the first decades of the Turkish Republic; their approach to the theory defended Islamic belief in the face of scientific theories of their times.
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