In this tenth and final episode, we will wrap up the discussion on human evolution and discuss further considerations to the subject. A few topics that will be touched on are questions with regards to consciousness which cannot be studied through empirical science as well as how the language of evolution can evoke a sense of godlessness. Finally, we will end with a discussion on the true purpose of human beings and how this discussion should not impact our faith and the important answers that Islam does give us.

References:

Quranic verses referred to: Q.15:28-30, Q.30:7, & Q.59:19

Haider Hobbollah, “Brief Overview of the Relationship Between Rationality and Revelation – Iqra Online,” ed. Muhammad Jaffer, Iqraonline.net, 2020, https://www.iqraonline.net/brief-overview-of-the-relationship-between-rationality-and-revelation/.

Shoaib Malik’s “Does Belief In Human Evolution Entail Kufr (Disbelief)? Evaluating The Concerns Of A Muslim Theologian”

Sayyid Muneer al-Khabazz: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VK0rVfy9pMs

Christof Koch, “What Is Consciousness?,” Nature.com, 2018, https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05097-x.

Oliver Burkeman, “Why can’t the world’s greatest minds solve the mystery of consciousness?” The Guardian, modified January 21, 2015, http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/jan/21/-sp-why-cant-worlds-greatest-minds-solve-mystery-consciousness.

Jared Diamond, “Evolution, consequences and future of plant and animal domestication” Nature 418 (8 August 2012), http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v418/n6898/full/nature01019.html, 700-707.

William C. Chittick, Science of the Cosmos, Science of the Soul: The Pertinence of Islamic Cosmology in the Modern World (Oxford: Oneworld, 2008), 83.

Ibn Bābawayh (Shaykh al Ṣadūq), Muḥammad b. ʿAlī. ʿIlal al Sharāʾi. Vol. 1. Qom: Davari Bookstore, 2006

Seyyed Hossein Nasr, “On the Question of Biological Origins,” Islam & Science 4, no. 2 (2006), http://www.cis-ca.org/jol/vol4-no2/nasr-f-prn.pdf.