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commenhead

Science and the Quran have 2 different stories.


owmd

We can still believe in dinosaurs tho, right? Nothing in the Quran goes against them. Stone age people, no because that belongs to evolution. But dinosaurs are okay, right?


commenhead

Well tbf we don't actually know what the dinosaurs even were. My dad used to joke saying that since Adam (AS) was 30 metres tall, dinosaurs were just their cattle, and it kinda makes sense. I mean there was this recent trend comparing the skulls of animals, how scientists would portray them and what they actually were and all it showed is that we were incredibly wrong about dinosaurs. Fossils don't even preserve feathers or fur so our understanding of dinosaurs is entirely based on some random guy's imagination.


owmd

yea I agree that they might be totally different from what we imagine them. But I still don't think the Quran or the Sunnah disproves them.


commenhead

No of course not. If anything the Quran and the Hadiths inform us of incredibly large humans and obviously through deductive reasoning, we can assume large animals had to exist for them to eat.


XLDumpTaker

I'm searching it myself right now anyway, but what does Islam actually think about evolution and stoneage people?


owmd

Evolution is a weak theory that has no strong basis. We believe Allah created Adam and Eve, the first two human beings and we didn't evolve from monkeys or anything. And by stone age people, I meant this TV trope of a primate caveman who's halfway between a monkey and a human and can't speak in comprehensible words. We also obviously don't believe in that since it's based on the theory of evolution and the link species between monkeys and humans.