A Comparison between Darwinism, Hinduism and Islam...
Personally I believe that every creature has been created seperately, not by Evolution.
There can be some similarities among the species in DNA, in structure of bones and so on. But that needs not to mean that one specie comes from other lower specie. That is the explanation of Atheist people that they can not understand why there remains some similarities among these species. The answer is simple; it is because as they are all creatures of the same nature, it is not impossible that there remains some similarities among them. But then the question arises - from where these similarities have come? The answer is again simple. It is from the One Who is the Ultimate Controller of the Heaven and the Earth.
The classroom of a school full of students becomes noisy without the presence of a suitable teacher; similarly the universe will also be noisy and become destroyed without the presence of natural laws coming from the Ultimate Controller of the Creation.
And we Muslims call this Ultimate Controller as "Allah" !!
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The Quran says clearly that Allah the Almighty has created all the creatures between the heaven and the earth in six long period which indicates that the creatures have been created all together seperately, not by Evolution.
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Allah says in the glorious Quran,
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***"He Who created the heavens and the earth and what is between them in six days(i.e six long period)*** and then established Himself above the Throne - the Most Merciful, so ask about Him one well informed."
(The Noble Quran, Surah Al-Furqan 25:59)
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But yet there remains another question, then what about the species that have become extinct and the new species that come later???
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It is also replied in the Quran that it is Allah Who makes any creature extinct and is also able to make creature absolutely new.
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"If He wills, He can do away with you and **bring forth a new creation.**
And that is for Allah not difficult."
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(The Noble Quran, Surah Fatir 35:16-17)
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So, all praises to Allah Who is controlling everything just by His commands.
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"Originator of the heavens and the earth. When He decrees a matter, He only says to it, "Be," and it is."
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(The Noble Quran, Surah Al-Baqarah 2:117)
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=> The Hindu People are confused about evolution!!!
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The Hindu Scholars say many fascinating words to attract people, but they themselves are debating among themselves.
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Let us first see what ISKCON says on Darwinism.
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"...we can understand that the various types of living entities were **created simultaneously at the very beginning of the creation.**
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***The nonsensical Darwinian theory of evolution is not applicable here***.
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It is not that intelligent human beings did not exist millions of years ago. On the contrary, it is understood that the most intelligent creature, Lord Brahma, was first created. Then Lord Brahma created other saintly sages like Marichi, Bhrigu, Atreya, Vasishtha, and Lord Shiva. They [the Prajapatis] in their turn created different types of bodies according to karma...."
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(Source - http://btg.krishna.com/srila-prabhupada-darwin-and-darwinism)
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So, according to ISKCON, the creatures are created separately. And first, the demigod Brahma was created and Brahma created other knowledgeable men.
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But Ramakrishna Mission considers such demigods as Maya or illusion which means this creation by God Brahma is just an imagination or illusion due to our ignorance.
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Let's have a look on Vivekananda's comment on personal God.
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"Q. — Does the Personal God belong to Maya?
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A. — Yes; but ***the Personal God is the same Absolute seen through Maya.***
That Absolute under the control of nature is what is called the human soul; and that which is controlling nature is Ishvara, or the Personal God...."
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(Complete Works of Vivekananda/Volume 5/Questions and Answers/I Discussion at The Graduate Philosophical Society of Harvard University)
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""In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."
***The Hindu calls this Mâyâ***, the manifestation of God, because it is the power of God.
The Absolute reflecting through the universe is what we call nature. The Word has two manifestations — ***the general one of nature, and the special one of the great Incarnations of God — Krishna, Buddha, Jesus, and Ramakrishna***...."
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(Complete Works of Vivekananda/Volume 7/Inspired talks)
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So, as gods are maya or our illusion, so the creation by god Brahma is also an illusion.
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In the above commentry of ISKCON, we see how they directly rejected Darwinism, but in the speech of Vivekananda we can see the support of Evolution which is an indirect support of Darwinism.
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"...All the possibilities of life are in the germ. The problem becomes a little clearer. Add to it the first idea of continuation of life.
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***From the lowest protoplasm to the most perfect human being*** there is really but one life.
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Just as in one life we have so many various phases of expression, the protoplasm developing into the baby, the child, the young man, the old man, so, from that protoplasm up to the most perfect man we get one continuous life, one chain. This is evolution, but we have seen that each evolution presupposes an involution.
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***The whole of this life which slowly manifests itself evolves itself from the protoplasm to the perfected human being*** — the Incarnation of God on earth — the whole of this series is but one life, and ***the whole of this manifestation must have been involved in that very protoplasm***.
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This whole life, this very God on earth, was involved in it and slowly came out, manifesting itself slowly, slowly, slowly...."
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(Complete Works of Vivekananda/Volume 2/Jnana-Yoga/IMMORTALITY)
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"Q. Do you believe we come up from the animals?
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A. ***I believe that, by the law of evolution, the higher beings have come up from the lower kingdoms***."
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(Complete Works of Vivekananda/Volume 1/Lectures and Discourses/SOUL, GOD AND RELIGION)
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So, there is a clear contradiction between the Hindu Thoughts. The Vaishnava thought rejects Darwinism completely whereas the Mayavadi thought tolerates the theory of Evolution.
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So, Hindu people have become confused to choose the right way!!!
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