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In Middle Eastern antiquity, the Great Flood (not evolution) was accepted as the reversal of creation, and the survival of Noah was the new creation. Since the Qur'an supports this story, it is the more likely meaning of ''repeating'' creation. Then Allah dispensing justice, humans returning to him and punishments with boiling fluids are phrases incongruous to evolution. | In Middle Eastern antiquity, the Great Flood (not evolution) was accepted as the reversal of creation, and the survival of Noah was the new creation. Since the Qur'an supports this story, it is the more likely meaning of ''repeating'' creation. Then Allah dispensing justice, humans returning to him and punishments with boiling fluids are phrases incongruous to evolution. | ||
==Verse 6:133 Destruction of Humans== | ==Verse 6:2 - Allah stayed away from us to let us evolve== | ||
{{Quote|Qur'an 6:2|He is Who has created you from clay, then he spent a term of time (away from you), and (it is) a specific term he determined. Yet, you doubt (his ability)!}} | |||
This is an outright mistranslation and Muslim apologists even insert some words of their own liking in parentheses. | |||
==Verse 6:133 - Destruction of Humans== | |||
{{Quote|{{Quran|6|133}}|Thy Lord is self-sufficient, full of Mercy: if it were His will, He could destroy you, and in your place appoint whom He will as your successors, even as He raised you up from the posterity of other people. }} | {{Quote|{{Quran|6|133}}|Thy Lord is self-sufficient, full of Mercy: if it were His will, He could destroy you, and in your place appoint whom He will as your successors, even as He raised you up from the posterity of other people. }} | ||
This verse has been claimed to have described the hominid ancestors of man. It also sounds as if evolution is ongoing and humans can be replaced by a better species. This is an ad hoc hypothesis; the verse is rather in keeping with several descriptions of destroyed cities in the rest of the Qur'an, all of which are attributed to Allah. | This verse has been claimed to have described the hominid ancestors of man. It also sounds as if evolution is ongoing and humans can be replaced by a better species. This is an ad hoc hypothesis; the verse is rather in keeping with several descriptions of destroyed cities in the rest of the Qur'an, all of which are attributed to Allah. | ||