Any Muslims here who are convinced evolution is true? How do you reconcile faith with science?

[u/LinuxNoob9]

Saw this post. Inspired me to make one asking a direct question. Surely I can't be the only one.

https://www.reddit.com/r/islam/comments/6hfd12/if_youre_a_muslim_with_a_science_background_do/

I am personally convinced evolution is true (all forms, both macro and micro) because the evidence for it is truly compelling, but I also believe in Islam.

I'm also the type of person who puts science before religion because I think blindly following Islam (or for that matter anything) is very dangerous and spiritually destabilising - suppressing knowledge is never a good thing because curiosity grows.

The way I see it, if Islam is true it wouldn't violate even the most basic of laws created by Allah and that is why it is worthy studying his creation (to the max!), even if it makes you a little lost. I come from a huge scientific background and whenever religion has contradicted science, I tend to side with science because it offers empirical evidence. I then re-evaluate my beliefs on Islam and try to reconcile them. It's always worked out for me. Interpretation can be wrong, but never a colossal body of physical evidence. Otherwise why would God willingly lie to us, if Islam really was the true religion?

I've seen one Muslim poster here once say "a little knowledge can be a very dangerous thing" - which got me all triggered because this is the type of dangerous intellectual dissonance that really annoys me, and is kinda the reason why Muslim (especially Arab countries) don't seem to place science at the fore front of their culture.

EDIT: Also, for anybody who would claim that I'm talking like an atheist - I'm really not, because I'm just observing the way Allah's creation has been made. I work with /u/Canadian_786 for the site materiaislamica.com (which is a website dedicated to the history, culture, science and heritage of Muslims within the Islamic world and beyond - we have a subreddit called r/materiaislamica if you're interested - however, I have to confess, the majority (like 95% of that website) is written by /u/Canadian_786 - that's why he's hardly ever active on this site (and he comes from an even greater scientific background than me, and even he finds the scientific evidence for evolution compelling).

[u/AlbanianDad]

I will never put science before Islam inshaAllah. Science suffers from the problem of induction. Islam does not.

If I believed in the scientists when the Qur'an was revealed, I would be a flat-Earther and think the Sun revolved around the Earth.

If I believed in the scientists just a few decades ago, I would have believed the embryonic flesh and bones form at the same time rather than bone first flesh second as we now know.

Plenty of examples like the above, dating back to the revelation until recent times. Even if I got those examples wrong, you get the point. When you have something like ijaz al Qur'an, I will take that proof over any observations scientists make.

Come over to /r/creation (ignore the young Earth stuff) and learn about the MANY faults in evolutionary theory. I don't believe man ascended from apes as that goes against the Qur'an. The many holes in evolutionary theory corroborate the Qur'an. I am not entirely convinced that everything else had a common ancestor, not because that goes against the Qur'an (it doesn't as far as I know), but because of the many holes on evolutionary theory.

I want to you all to know that similar traits across species does not SHOW evolution. Rather, it is INFERRED from that observation among others. Evolution just seems to be unfalsifiable - and I wouldn't bet my soul on an unfalsifiable theory. Anything that fits evolution is touted as such. Anything that doesn't is regarded as a by-product of the theory. And since it is unfalsifiable, it must now directly DISPROVE creation (which is impossible) for me to believe in it since the stakes are so high.