Bilal Philips – Best of Tawheed – Theory of Evolution

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			salam, alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh I'd like to welcome you dear viewers to another in our
series, the best of door heat. And in this series, we're looking at the best evidence found in the
Quran and the Sunnah. And the explanations of the companions of Prophet Muhammad, may God's peace
and blessings be upon him, as well as that of early scholars, which give us a clear picture of what
in fact, is tawheed in Islam.
		

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			many anthropologists and sociologists social scientists, and looking at religion, under the
influence of Darwinian theory of how humans evolved, they had developed, and many people still look
at religion from their perspective and evolutionary model. According to them,
		

			human beings, early human beings, the first ones that evolved from a common ancestor with the apes,
the first human beings, human families and tribes, that devolve they used to defy
		

			the forces of nature, according to them, when early man came in contact with the cataclysmic and
devastating forces of nature, like lightning, thunder, volcanoes and earthquakes, they saw them as
superior beings, supreme beings. Powerful, this was the science of their power. And they sought to
appease them the way that they appeased their leaders, the one who was the head of the tribe, had to
be appeased people brought things to him, keep him happy, so that he would look down on them well,
so they looked at these forces of nature in the same way, that they needed to be appeased. So they
made sacrifices, they brought food and different things to these forces of nature.
		

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			this is how early religion began. According to them. They gave the example of the North American
Indians who believe in the spirits of the rivers and the forest etc. As an example of this early
stage, in the evolution of religion, which is known as animism.
		

			animism involves giving divinity or spiritual life, to elements of nature, trees, stones, rocks,
rivers, seas, etc. So, after that stage, then according to them, people started to develop personal
gods, personal Gods which were for regions, clans, etc. And this stage, the stage of the family,
Gods special Gods for each family, etc. They give the example of the polytheistic Hindus of India,
where every family may have its own personal God, and as economic necessity
		

			and war produced nations, families were absorbed into nations, then the tribal gods of the leading
families became the main gods of the nations. And the numbers of Gods became fewer and fewer as time
passed, more areas were conquered, you know, the leading god of the leading family became the God of
the area, or the region, the country, etc. But prior to becoming one, it reached the point of two
gods and of course, the example they give is that of the Zoroastrians of Persia.
		

			Have god of good and evil said okay, so things evolved down to the rich to Gods. And then after
that, you now had the One God pop up, okay, and actually, in the
		

			pharaohs who have multiple gods, their stage was similar to that of the Hindus, they had a number of
Gods for different families. Even some of the rulers were considered to be gods, in the 14th century
BC, one of the Egyptian rulers aconitine,
		

			also known as Ayman hotep, the fourth, he introduced the idea of one God,
		

			the sun was the symbol, bra, the disk of the Sun became the symbol of that one God. So, that was the
evolutionary development to one God, however, what we see is that, of course, after Akhenaten's
death, then multiple gods were brought back in. And if we look at the various religions around the
world, even though they may have a number of gods, they generally have almost every last one of them
generally has belief in one God, one supreme god, overall, the other the other gods became like,
intermediaries, you know,
		

			demigods, some of them are half human, half God, etc. And that
		

			is more in keeping with the idea that people were monotheistic, and their beliefs became corrupted
until they became polytheistic. And the examples we gave,
		

			even of Zoroastrians, who have a God of good and a God of evil, even in their system, with the two
gods, the God of good is the superior God, He is the one who will win out in the struggle between
the two. So he is the ultimate God. And that's what they hold, but they just have another god that
struggles with Him until the end of this world. So actually, when looking at what has happened to
Christianity, or looking at what has happened also to Islam, we have to say that the degenerative
model, that people degenerated from Tao head, from the Unitarian belief, into polytheism, that is,
in fact, more keeping with what we know of the history of the various religions in the various
		

			societies. The claim that early man, deified nature, this is just a fairy tale. Nobody was around
them. Nothing has been written at that time. We don't have evidence for it. It's just a blank claim.
Whereas
		

			the evidence is for monotheism, we do have it, corruption of monotheism, after the time of the
prophets, is recorded. So we have a much clearer picture when we follow the degeneration model than
we do. And we've tried to follow the evolutionary model, because of course, the evolutionary model
is based on the theory of evolution, which itself is questionable, it posits
		

			concepts which are not really founded in clear evidence. It's only supposition that human beings
evolved from ape like creatures, sharing a common ancestor with the apes. This belief
		

			is the belief
		

			used to justify atheism, that we have no God, in fact, because if we end the monkeys, the apes share
the same common origin. And you don't see any monkeys worshiping God creating temples and idols that
they worship. So then the question is, why do we
		

			have of course this kind of argument to this kind of view, is very common among the social
anthropologists. No social scientists
		

			who tend to look at human beings and judge their actions based on what animals do. So they say,
since animals don't do that, it means something that we have learned, probably not good for us
better not to do it. So they promote time and time again, the idea that we should be like animals.
And so you had a big strong movement there, which is known as the nudist movement, where people
promoted * that we shouldn't be closed. You don't see any monkeys, chimpanzees, wearing
clothes, except for those that we've put clothes on person, we should be not true. You know, this
idea that you have to cover yourself is like, you know, some kind of a psychological thing which the
		

			society is putting on you, you should be free open. So they had nudist colonies, nudist parks in
Europe, where mom, dad, the kids all went start naked to the park. Even the person who's selling ice
cream there he's naked goal Park, in *.
		

			They felt this is going back to nature, going back to the norm for human existence. But of course,
this remained. With a small segment of society though we had nudist beaches and things like that
came along. Still, the majority of people didn't really accept this way of thinking. We're gonna
pause here for a break. Before looking at the origin of shirk. Where did she come from, if the
beginning of our faith as human beings was in our head. So how did shark enter our ranks in the
first place?
		

			We'll be looking at that in our coming segment. We'll see you after the break.
		

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