Question No. 3219 31 August 2022 Official answer by Master Ali Saei (Abdullah Meshkat) verified Content level: Intermediate

Do Islamic Perspectives Hold That Living Beings Were Created All at Once?

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Do Islamic perspectives hold that living beings—plants, animals, other creatures, and humans—were created all at once?
Do Islamic views reject or affirm evolution?

Subject category: Theology and Creed Critique of Doubts Critique and review

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Islamic perspectives reject evolution in its conventional sense. Although different kinds of creatures have their own temporal and spatial origins, and it is possible that their creation was unified in time beyond the material world, this does not mean that the theory of evolution is accepted.

Answer by Master Ali Saei (Abdullah Meshkat)

Teacher and researcher in the intellectual tradition of wisdom and the Ahl al-Bayt | Soroush Bamdadān Cultural Center

Every kind of creature on Earth has its own distinctive temporal and geographical origins. Yet if we move beyond the world of this life and study their pre-terrestrial, immaterial origins, it is possible that they all share a common temporal point of creation beyond the material realm.

Evolution, in its commonly understood sense, is rejected from an Islamic perspective.

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Do Islamic Perspectives Hold That Living Beings Were Created All at Once?

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Answer by Master Ali Saei (Abdullah Meshkat)

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