Biological evolution and Islam:

This for Londonmale but anyone else can participate. This does not concern human evolution, as Adam and Eve’s creation is clearly explain in the Qur’an, but rather animals and the rest of creation.
“Allah is the Creator of all things and over all things He has authority.” [Sûrah al-Zumar: 62]

What is biological evolution? Evolutionary biology is a sub-field of biology concerned with the origin of species from a common descent and descent of species, as well as their change, multiplication and diversity over time. At the heart of it is the process of natural selection. This is the idea that the individuals within a populations of living organism vary in their individual traits – they are not exactly alike – and that the organisms which are most successful at leaving descendants will pass on their unique traits to the next generation at the expense of the traits possessed by less successful organisms in the population, thereby contributing to a long-term gradual change in the suite of traits found within the population.
Apart from Adam and Eve, we find that the Qur’an and Sunna do not tell us much about the vegetation and fauna that was present on the Earth before or at the time of Adam and Eve’s arrived upon it. In fact the world before Adam and Eve is not mentioned apart from the indication that it existed before as was the Jinn’s world. The sacred texts also do not tell us how long ago Adam and Eve arrived upon the Earth. Therefore, these are things we cannot ascertain from the sacred texts.

The only thing that the Qur’an and Sunna require us to believe about the living things on Earth today is that Allah created them in whatever manner He decided to create them. “Allah does what He pleases.”
Today we have biological evolution theory that gives us an explanation that in many parts does not contradict the Qur’an and Allah’s authority. If anything it can be argued that it supports the ‘intelligent design’ argument the fact that such perfection and precocious of the diversity life forms take. Allah says a sign of His existence is creation.
I want to mention one vital verse: “And We made from water all living things.” [Sûrah al-Anbiyâ’: 30] Does that not make the smallest of all implications that life might have actually formed as Darwin described? (Excluding Humans) Of cause with Allah’s will.
Before Darwin, and Western interest, Muslim scholars where already exploring this idea of animals evolving and natural selection. One prime example is Al-Jahiz , he wrote famous book ‘The Kitab al-Hayawan’ where he studied animals and came to similar conclusions as Darwin. Al-N, arn is also said to have had an interest in the area. Al-Tusi has also done work on evolution of life. Science and Islam have always worked in counterpart, biological evolution is a theory and only science seems to hold an answer there[quote][/quote]