The greatest scientific evidence against the Quran would be evolution. That pretty much destroys the faith entirely.
Yeah but then there have always been Muslims who, like "moderate Christians" take the whole Adam & Eve thing as allegorical and they still have the sweetness of
iman.
1. The Quran omits the serpent and the rib story altogether. The former omission is obviously meant to free the story from its Phallic setting and its original suggestion of a pessimistic view of life. The latter omission is meant to suggest that the purpose of the Quranic narration is not historical, as in the case of the Old Testament, which gives us an account of the origin of the first human pair by way of a prelude to the history of Israel. Indeed, in the verses which deal with the origin of man as a living being, the Quran uses the words 'Bashar', or 'Insan' not 'Adam', which it reserves for man in his capacity of God's vicegerent on earth. The purpose of the Quran is further secured by the omission of proper names mentioned in the Biblical narration - Adam and Eve. The word Adam is retained and used more as a concept than as the name of a concrete human individual. This use of the word is not without authority in the Quran itself. The following verse is clear on the point:
We created you; then fashioned you; then said We to the angels, Prostrate yourselves unto Adam. (7: 10.)
2. The Quran splits up the legend into two distinct episodes - the one relating to what it describes simply as 'the tree' and the other relating to the 'tree of eternity' and the 'kingdom that faileth not'. The first episode is mentioned in the 7th and the second in the 20th Sura of the Quran. According to the Quran Adam and his wife, led astray by Satan whose function is to create doubts in the minds of men, tasted the fruit of both the trees, whereas according to the Old Testament man was driven out of the Garden of Eden immediately after his first act of disobedience, and God placed, at the Eastern side of the garden, angels and a flaming sword, turning on all sides, to keep the way to the tree of life.
3. [There is no] reason to suppose that the word 'Jannat' (garden) as used here means the supersensual paradise from which man is supposed to have fallen on this earth. According to the Quran man is not a stranger on this earth. And We have caused you to 'grow from the earth,' says the Quran (67:24). The 'Jannat', mentioned in the legend, cannot mean the eternal abode of the righteous. In the sense of the eternal abode of the righteous, 'Jannat' is described by the Quran to be the place 'wherein the righteous will pass to one another the cup which shall engender no light discourse, no motive to sin'. It is further described to be the place 'wherein no weariness shall reach the righteous, nor forth from it shall they be cast'. In the 'Jannat' mentioned in the legend, however, the very first event that took place was man's sin of disobedience followed by his expulsion.
In fact, the Quran itself explains the meaning of the word as used in its own narration. In the second episode of the legend the garden is described as a place 'where there is neither hunger, nor thirst, neither heat nor nakedness'. I am, therefore inclined to think that the 'Jannat' in the Quranic narration is the conception of a primitive state in which man is practically unrelated to his environment and consequently does not feel the sting of human wants, the birth of which alone marks the beginning of human culture...
The Fall does not mean any moral depravity; it is man's transition from simple consciousness to the first flash of self-consciousness, a kind of waking from the dream of nature with a throb of personal causality in one's own being.
Nor does the Quran regard the earth as a torture-hall where an elementally wicked humanity is imprisoned for an original act of sin. Man's first act of disobedience was also his first act of free choice; and that is why, according to the Quranic narration, Adam's first transgression was forgiven.
Since I was taught it in Year 10, I have never doubted the theory of evolution. Not when I was a Christian, not when I was an atheist and not when I was a Muslim. I have known many converts and still know a few:
none of them disbelieves in evolution. The 'born Muslims' I knew were mostly in science-based vocations yet still religious. I doubt they believed in creationism or whatever either.
Of course that is just my experience. Perhaps I'm wrong but creationism/ID seems to be the purview of 'fundamentalists' and the rather strange (and rich)
Adnan Oktar.
I died as a mineral and became a plant,
I died as plant and rose to animal,
I died as animal and I was Man.
Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?
Yet once more I shall die as Man, to soar
With angels blest; but even from angelhood
I must pass on: all except God doth perish.
When I have sacrificed my angel-soul,
I shall become what no mind e'er conceived.
Oh, let me not exist! for Non-existence
Proclaims in organ tones, 'To Him we shall return.'
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Jalaluddin Rumi
Topic: Scientific evidence AGAINST Islam