let me give you a case study Darwinian mechanism because for some reason for some reason I don't
really get this for some reason Muslims even Christians are below it brothers and sisters
in the Christian tradition and other religions and people believe in God and even people who
are just in the middle right now people on the fence they're skeptics I don't know what's going
on they think Darwinism is a problem probably just this course it's not I just don't get it
I mean I've been seeing in the sidelines for the past few years thinking what's the
problem how is their problem I don't get it if someone just understands and studies the
foundations of science the philosophy of science this wouldn't be become a problem for you anymore
let me explain why Darwinism suffers from all the limitations that we just spoke about in
the philosophy of science and we've developed a thing called pad Darwinism suffers from pad it's
probabilistic it has its own assumptions and they are academic this speaks about certain aspects of
Darwinism this doesn't mean you reject it oh my god no yeah it's no it's not like you know this
this force of evil that you just reject now you accept it practically with the notion that it's
probabilistic because it's based on limited data you may have future data in genetics for
example epigenetics seems to be you know a bit of a challenge to the kind of old-school thinking on
the Darwinian mechanism or I'm not a scientist or not much about this is based on testimony of
course but things are happening right things are happening so you may have future observations and
understanding in genetics or other things that can contradict previous conclusions about Darwinism
itself so it's probabilistic you don't have all knowledge you don't have all the observations
right secondly Darwinism is based on assumptions and these assumptions include gradualism the Tree
of Life and there many other assumptions but you have to adopt gradualism as an assumption right
in order to understand the observations it's not the other way around so it's an assumption and
this is why then it's Noble the oxford university biologist he said all the central assumptions of
neo-darwinism have have been disproven so it's based on some assumptions and also has disputes
for example you have disputes like evolution by natural genetic engineering new Lamarckian
evolution mutation driven evolution now long we'll be very honest with you I don't have an
academic understanding on these right but and I don't have to adopt them I'm not saying they're
right but they exist disputes exists on the academic level assumptions are there studied the
philosophy biology study the assumptions of the Darwinian mechanism there are unproven assumptions
and it's probabilistic meaning you don't have all observations it may change so how on earth
is there a problem for the four Muslims at least how is it a problem it's only a problem if you've
committed an epistemic disqualification if you believe human limited knowledge is equivalent
to divine knowledge and that has happened only because we have an effort to complex and because
we don't know who our Creator is because if we believe in God's names and attributes he's
al-hakim he's the wise he has the totality of wisdom he's an alum he's the knowing he says
the totality of knowledge if you believe he's the wise and all-knowing and he has the picture
we just have a pixel this would never have been a problem and we just continue the science and
love to do science and accept it practically you know you could study the Darwinian mechanism as
a Muslim and learn how to deal with antibiotics and learn about bacteria and save the world and
like many Muslims do because the Quran gives us a spiritual driving principle value which says if
you save one life is like saying saving the whole of humanity there you go what you're going to do
start walking out your Darwinism lectures come on man do you see my point it's not a problem
and if you see reconcilable with orthodoxy then so be it science is beautiful it's supposed to
change and that's what the Darwinian mechanism is probabilistic from the point of view that you can
have future observation that can can contradict things that's that we understand today is based
on assumptions that aren't proven and there are academic disputes about certain key things of
science like is it the tree of life is it the bush of life you know by true these acts that
exists the bush of life idea exists so there you know so I don't see how it's a problem so
as a Muslim you could walk into your biology class and you could listen to the lecturer and
you could be empowered by the fact that you understand now what you call in Arabic the O
soul of science the foundations the framework the principles of the philosophy of science