This presentation in detail shows the relationship between evolution, and Islam and evolution and Social Sciences. Moreover, it explains in detail the criticism of the Darwinian ideas present in social sciences.

1. Evolution of Man
Syeda Fatima Tuz Zahra

2. What is Evolution?
• A progression in change, often
branching and diversifying in the
process.
Or
• Continuous Variations lead to
Evolution.

3. On the Origin of Species by Means of
Natural Selection:
• A book by Charles Darwin.
• 24 November 1859.
• Put forward the “Theory of
Evolution by means of Natural
Selection”.

4. Survival of the Fittest:
• “ It is not the most intellectual of the species
that survives; it is not the strongest that
survives; but the species that survives is the
one that is able best to adapt and adjust to
the changing environment in which it finds
itself”. Charles Darwin

5. “
To give us room to explore the varieties of mind
and body into which our genome can evolve,
one planet is not enough.” “Evolution,
a fact rather than mere hypothesis, is the central
unifying concept in biology.”
- Charles Darwin
5
“all life on Earth is connected”

6. A WAR of the Worldviews
Science vs. Religion
Evolutionists vs. Creationists

7. Creationists vs. Evolutionists
• “A person’s philosophy of origins will inevitably determine …
what he believes concerning his destiny, and even what he
believes about the meaning and purpose of his life and
actions right now …” Morris (Creationist)
• “Evolutionary theory has been enshrined as the centerpiece
of our educational system, and elaborate walls have been
erected around it to protect it from unnecessary abuse.”
Jeremy Rifkin (Evolutionist)

8. Science vs. Religion:
• “Science and religion are not at odds. Science is
simply too young to understand.”
― Dan Brown, Angels and Demons
• “False facts are highly injurious to the progress of
science, for they often endure long…”
– Charles Darwin

9. No Flexibility creates everlasting Chaos:
• Richard Dawkins: “It is absolutely safe to
say that if you meet someone who claims
not to believe in evolution, that person is
ignorant, stupid or insane (or wicked, but
I’d rather not consider that).”

10. The Imaginative road to Evolution:

11. Evolution and Islam:
• Quran constantly calls us to observe the world and
gives us cues on how to reflect. It teaches us how to
see that the universe has a wise, powerful, caring
Creator, and that things do not happen on their own
or randomly. Rather, whoever makes one thing must
be the Maker of all.
• A true Muslim should strive to know and gain
knowledge.

12. Evolution and Islam:
• Accessibility and reasonability of the Qur’anic
discourse means that it is not dependent on
speculations and theories about what might have
happened millions of years ago in order to recognize
the truth (to be sure, scientific study can be useful in
understanding and appreciating the Creator, if
honestly and insightfully developed).

13. Evolution and Islam:
• The claim that the emergence of species on earth
happened without any purposeful cause, is the
WEAKEST point of the theory of Evolution.
• Muslims should be asking questions by
reimagining and rethinking the way it was
thought before.

15. Evolution and Islam:
• WeareDestinedtodie…
• If evolution is the way to get better, why should our DNA have
a program that schedules us to die? If DNA evolved for better
survival, why are we aging? To me, this fact only makes sense
if we reject randomness, and confirm the Qur’anic view that
we are created by One Creator, with a specific Purpose who
designed us in a way that entails we don’t stay in this world
forever.

16. Evolutionist Influencers:
1. Bertrand Russell
• Wrote a book on
“Why I Am Not a Christian”

17. Evolutionist Influencers:
2. Voltaire, French philosopher
• Predicted the end of belief in God in his lifetime
3. Steven Gould
• Admits that we can’t see evolution in progress
• Evolution is based on faith, not fact

18. Evolutionist Influencers:
4. The philosopher Janus Koestler noted that:“The
public continues to believe that Darwin provided all
the relevant answers by the magic formula of
random mutations plus natural selection - quite
unaware of the fact that random mutations turned
out to be irrelevant and natural selections a
tautology.”

19. “A point of view can be a dangerous
luxury when substituted for insight and
understanding.”
― Marshall McLuhan, The Gutenberg
Galaxy: The Making of TypographicMan

20. Evolutionist Influencers:
5. Frederich Nietzsche
• The creator of the “God is dead” movement
• Set the stage for mass murders in the 20th centuryHeavily influenced Hitler,
Stalin and Mussolini, the three “devils” of the 20th century
• Hitler used Nietzsche’s philosophy as his motivation to obliterate the weak and
inferior (helping evolution along)
• Hitler personally gave Mussolini a copy of Nietzsche’s work
• Nietzsche himself spent his last 11 years insane

21. STALIN

22. Communism:
6. Karl Marx, father of theoretical communism stated that
Darwin’s theory has “support from natural science”. Scientific
basis of Marxism was evolutionism
7. Mao Tse-Tung regarded Darwin as the foundation of Chinese
scientific socialism. Communists believed in evolution through revolution.
Stalin’s Russian purge killed millions. Mao Tse Tung killed
30M+ in the cultural revolution of the 1960’s.

23. Secular Humanism:
• Humanism is any view that recognizes the value and dignity of the
individual and seeks to better the human condition [a noble goal]
• Secular humanism views mankind as an integral part of nature and thus
denies the human soul
• Limits values to what has value for man
• Ethics and morals become situational
• Denies the existence of God
• The ultimate humanist objective is socialist world government, with the
humanist elite in control
• The UN agency, UNESCO, is particularly influential in this movement

24. Secular Humanism:

25. Secular Humanism:
• “Education is thus a most powerful ally of humanism. What can the
theistic Sunday schools, meeting for an hour once a week, and
teaching only a fraction of the children, do to stem the tide of a
five-day program of humanistic teaching?
_ Charles Francis Potter, Humanism, A New Religion, 1933.
• “There is no God and no soul. Hence there are no needs for the
props of traditional religion. With dogma and creed excluded, the
immutable truth is also dead and buried. There is no room for fixed,
natural law or permanent moral absolutes.”
_ John Dewey, Humanist Manifesto, 1933.

26. Secular Humanism:
• Evolutionary interpretation of natural science is
taught in schools, to the exclusion of any other
interpretation today
• Chawla, 1964, a humanist wrote: “Darwin’s discovery
of the principle of evolution sounded the death knell
of religious and moral values. It removed the ground
from under the feet of traditional religion.”

27. Evolution and Social Sciences:
• Quoted from a weekly in higher education:
• “The social and conceptual revolution that we are
now witnessing ... can be traced back to Darwin.”
Sigmund Freud, the psychologist, banished God from
the soul, like Darwin banished God from life.
Evolution is taught as “fact” in all public schools at all
grade levels
• “Change” is the norm

28. Evolution and Social Sciences:
• John Dewey (of Dewey Decimal fame)
• John Dewey’s philosophy was built on Darwinism and
pantheistic humanism
• “Scientific principles and laws do not lie on the
surface of nature. They are hidden, and must be
wrested from nature by an active and elaborate
technique of inquiry”.

29. Evolution and Social Sciences:
• Historians such as Toynbee
• were dedicated evolutionists.
• “Civilization is a movement
• and not a condition, a
• voyage and not a harbor”

30. Evolution and Social Sciences:
• Philosophies of Karl Marx and Friedrich
• Nietzsche were heavily influenced by
• evolution.

31. Evolution and Social Sciences:
• Social Darwinism - survival of the fittest
applied to economic and social structures

32. Evolution and Social Sciences:
• Sociobiology and the understanding of cultural change as
an evolutionary process are approaches that have a
history and both will continue to be explored in the
future. Each is a flexible instrument, which may be better
suited to some tasks than to others, and may be handled
well by some practitioners and poorly by others. As a
consequence, neither can be said to be ‘verified’ and
‘falsified’ by their track records to date.
_ Sober Elliott

33. Evolution and Social Sciences:
• A basic idea behind evolutionary thinking is that
continuous change is what is normal and expected.
This ends up manifesting itself in such things as
relativistic morality (there is no absolute right and
wrong), and even in our judicial system where law is
seen as something that needs to change to reflect
shifts in popular will.
_ Dr. Heinz Lycklama

34. Racism and Evolution:
• “Mongoloid” became synonymous with mentally defective
people
• “Mentally defective” was a throwback to earlier stage in
evolution“
• Negroid stock is even more ancient than the Caucasian and
Mongolian”, Henry Osborne, Natural History, April 1980.
• Justified treatment of slaves in this country, aborigines in
Australia
• “Jesus was White” became a thing.

35. Even Darwin’s book
“Origin of Species
Through Natural
Selection” had
a subtitle “The
Preservation of
Favored Races in
the Struggle for Life”

36. Solution:
• “I look with confidence to the future, to young and rising
naturalists, who will be able to view both sides of the question
with impartiality”.
_ Charles Darwin
• “To live in the world without becoming aware of the meaning
of the world is like wandering about in a great library without
touching the books.”
― Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol

37. “I find that most people that zealously defend Darwin have not actually read Darwin;
definitely not Darwin's second book, The Descent of Man.”
― A.E. Samaan

38. “Sometimes it takes a good fall to really know where you stand”
― Hayley Williams
• As Carl Sagan once said, “I do not want to believe, I
want to know”.
• The Qur’an calls us to reflect on a tiny fly, for instance
(Qur’an 22:73).
• “I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and
that is that I know nothing.”
― Plato, The Republic

39. BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION MAY NOT BE PROVED BUT
SOCIAL EVOLUTION IS A FACT.

40. “Even though there
are no ways of
knowing for sure,
there are ways of
knowing for pretty
sure.”
― Lemony Snicket