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If humans evolved, why are there still chimpanzees?

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If Adam had parents, does Islam fall apart? Chimpanzees and genetics

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Nobody claims humans came from chimpanzees; both share a common ancestor, and evolution is now shown through genetics, which he says poses no problem for Islam.

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Mufti Abu Layth cites the verse that God created people from male and female, and asks what problem it poses for Islam if Adam was born of parents who lacked his level of consciousness, since no one knows the parents of Moses or Noah either. The caller asks why chimpanzees still exist if humans evolved. Mufti says nobody claims humans came from chimpanzees; hominins, chimpanzees and gorillas descend from a common ancestor, sharing around 97 per cent of DNA. He says evolution today is shown through genetics, the genotype rather than the phenotype, as in the human genome project and experiments relying on genetic structure, not merely on Darwin's observations, and that the Quran also affirms that life is related.

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Mufti Abu Layth says nobody claims human beings came from chimpanzees; they descend from a common ancestor.

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“nobody has said homo the hominins are from chimpanzees so chimpanzees are panning you've got guerillin you've got homonym these all descend from a common ancestor”

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i created you all from men and women am i saying this allah is saying this is he speaking but is he speaking to adam alaihissalam or is he speaking to humans so okay so let me get this right so let me get this right what is the problem if adam was created from a uh by that same rule of nature what is it does he is there a problem in islam with that so then that means there was a mom that means that okay so let's let's say let's say there is a mom and a dad how is this problematic to the concept of islam then who was uh uh adam al-assam's mom and dad

37:58

so whoever let's say who was moses or who was the mum and dad of no ali salaam i don't know does that impact the story of noah okay so let's go to the story of adam let's say he does have a mom and dad let's say he does but they don't have the same level of consciousness as adam did because he has he's the father of the cognitive revolution right within homo sapiens so let's say now how does this make a difference like how does the how is adam no longer capable of being a prophet

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see here's the thing if we believe in the idea of homo sapiens that we evolved you know that we are 98 like chimpanzees our dna therefore you know we think we involved from the similar uh you know start line then why do we still have chimpanzees if it was the nature or the evolution that caused us to evolve then why do we still have chimpanzees why don't they all turn into humans yeah but that's not how evolution works it doesn't work as in you see first of all human beings homo sapiens all uh not even homo sapiens right homonyms right are not from chimpanzees

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okay nobody has said homo the hominins are from chimpanzees so chimpanzees are panning you've got guerillin you've got homonym these all descend from a common ancestor we do not have 99 dna most likely 97. 97.3 or something like this dna now nobody is saying that chimpanzees became human beings that's why they're not becoming human beings because that nobody has ever made that claim

39:48

so and then uh so what you're saying earlier that through evolutions everything started from one thing and over time millions of years it evolves that's exactly what it means doesn't it sorry what what does that mean you were saying that you know you're giving an example of how everything started as us from water from one little thing i'm not saying that quran the quran is saying that but yes i'm also saying that and scientists are also saying that but the quran is also saying that but what is the problem with that the problem is that uh if that's the belief that every living thing started from unicellular

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from one thing and it was to evolution that evolved to different animals and you know different species then that that goes with the the the same idea that adam was an evolution from an earlier creation yeah we've already said he was but i mean what's why is this a problem in islam if he was let's say he was what okay let's just for a moment hypothetically except he was what how does everything fall in islam because of that belief how does that change anything in islam it doesn't change islam in any way so what what's the problem then

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the problem uh so then the problem is that it's that doesn't mean that that's a reality let me get this right if we're going to say that look okay today by the way evolution today is it's not i don't know how how much you are well read in evolution so it's not just based on how charles darwin wrote today evolution is proven through genetics okay through through the dna code we can see mathematically where things are related you can see it in the actual patterns it's not like you know when they span out like the human genome project and they've got

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other genetic structures you can see where they are related they will then for example when we do experiments when scientists will do things like grow a human let's say a human ear on a particular rodent it will only work because the genetic structure they understand the genetic structure to do that otherwise these things couldn't be successful they demonstrate that what the theories they're saying hold weight that the genetics do tie up it's not just a so it's not like oh you know human beings look a bit like monkeys therefore they must be related it's based forget about the the phenotype

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it's the ch it's the genotypes the genetics that that they're actually looking at okay just to be clear because sometimes people forget that they think oh we're talking about when darwin you know didn't have genetics and he didn't have dna right so okay what we know is science today not just science dna shows you that things are related okay we accept that it shows you that things have been like this is related to mammals which are related to this and you can see and from that you can gather a story we have in the quran allah is also affirming this

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we have in our observable world every like i'm sure you don't know a single person who was ever born without you know both a mother and father i'm sure you wouldn't know a single person like that in in reality you would never know that that that's i can state that as a fact right and i'm sure you know that as a fact that every single human being on earth that has ever lived that you know or that you know anybody who knows has also followed that law of nature it's not like this is not something which oh wow you know every third person is born without a dad right so now there is a reason that you are struggling to accept this

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