Salaam samson,
you said:
I myself believe the Quran clearly explains that God created life and all the variety of it miraculously.
As do I. I am not disputing this fact.
It may not have happened instantly but I believe it took days as in 24h days to do it
What lead/leads you to this believe? What evidence do you have to share with me to back up that assertion?
Many believers will accept that God can do anything and if He wanted to he could have done it instantly or over a number 24h days.
Again, I don't dispute this fact. But you must understand that God is not bound by human concepts of time. A 'yaum' (period) can represent any number of years or earthly time. Consider the following verses which supports this:
""And they ask you to hasten on the punishment, and God will by no means fail in His promise, and surely a day with your Lord is as a thousand years of what you number" [Quran 22:47]
""To Him ascend the angels and the Spirit in a day the measure of which is fifty thousand years" [Quran 7:4].
As evident by the above verses, God exists outside time and space; therefore time is meaningless. I don't wish to regurgitate the same arguments Joseph Islam already laid out in one of his articles pertaining to this subject, so I kindly advice to read it then, afterwards, share with me your disputation.
The Quran clearly describes the creation of Adam and makes absolutely no mention of it taking many years or of him gradually "evolving".
Again, please take into account the fact that God is not bound by human concept of time. So while a certain issue may occur in an instant with God, to us it may come about come about in a long and gradual process.
With respect to God's word of
'be and it is, it is merely a means that a command has been executed. So when God says 'kun', all it refers to is the execution of His command. Whether this is an instant or part of a billion year process, they all have God’s ‘kun’ behind it.
Lastly, your usage of 33:59 as 'evidence' of Adams (and therefore Human-beings) extant creation is, in my opinion, inaccurate. Nether that verse (and others like it which use the term
be and it issuggest/s that Adam (or Prophet Jesus) were created in an instant. Bear in mind that Prophet Jesus had to undergo a gestation period in his mother's (Mary) womb. Clearly this is not an instant. Similarly, humans, too, had to evolve in their physiological state (bashar) before God's Divine energy (ruh) could be breathed into them and before they became 'insaan'. (as in the case of Adam).
THEORY OF EVOLUTION AND THE QURAN
http://quransmessage.com/articles/evolution%20FM3.htmhttp://quransmessage.com/forum/index.php?topic=370.0They are 2 different areas. Evolution is a fact. We can observe it happen. Common Ancestry has never been observed and in fact observations show that there are barriers to it.
I fully concur. I am not making the argument that we, as humans, descended from monkeys; nor is that what is meant by the term '
common ancestry. Common ancestry simply means that both humans and monkeys share a 'common ancestor'. This is different from the proposition that man has evolved from monkeys.
Peace.