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Evolution and Speciation: An Ahmadi Muslim Khalifa (Mirza Masroor Ahmad) Explains

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This post is for discussing the claims in the 2-minute video linked to this tweet of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community’s 5th Khalifa, Mirza Masroor Ahmad (MMA, for short). In the video, MMA discusses aspects of evolution that reveal a very simplistic understanding, if it can be so called, of the topic. Umar Nasser had responded to my tweet, and in order to provide some non-trivial responses, I’ve created this blog post to explore some concepts that arise out of Umar’s comments. This blog post mirrors the responses first provided on Reddit.

Critiquing with Compassion and Levity

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The YouTube Channel Rational Religion recently put out a video entitled The Scientific Evidence for God. In the comments section, I read a series of comments from a detractor, that I felt were a touch harsh. Still pretty mild by YouTube standards. Nonetheless, it got me thinking and spurred me to write this post to […]

Ahmadiyyat: Abiogenesis and Natural Explanations

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This post is a continuation of a discussion on Twitter, which you can access here. Atheists take the process as naturalistic, but one whose mechanisms we don’t currently and may never understand. My understanding is that Ahmadi Muslims would not deny the jump from inorganic to organic matter, but that where the atheist would suggest an […]

Ahmadiyyat and the Distinct Line of Evolution of Humans

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Would any Ahmadi Muslims like to expand on the distinct single-cell evolution position, per: http://whyahmadi.org/atheism/evolution.html? Regarding the statement on this page that: Instead, the Holy Qur’an supports the view that the human species evolved from the single cell stage as a separate species. Can you elaborate on that position? Specifically, I’m reading it to mean […]