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26 THE INTELLECTUAL STRUGGLE AGAINST DARWINISM

Examples from the Qur'an of God's Creation
without Natural Causes

With their distorted logic, those who err in seeking to estab-
lish a "middle ground" between Darwinism and Islam are unable
to explain the instances of our God's miraculous creation that are
related in the Qur'an. In these examples, it is revealed that God
created with no natural cause, in a miraculous manner. Those
who imagine that the pagan myths from Sumerian legends are ac-
tually scientific facts are quite helpless in the face of these exam-
ples.

A Bird Made of Mud by the Prophet Jesus
(pbuh) Comes to Life

It is revealed in the Qur'an that something of mud made in
the form of a bird by the Prophet Jesus (pbuh) came to life, by the
will of God, when he breathed into it:
Remember when God said, 'Jesus, son of Maryam, remem-
ber My blessing to you and to your mother when I rein-
forced you with the Purest Soul so that you could speak to
people in the cradle and when you were fully grown; and
when I taught you the Book and Wisdom, and the Torah
and the Injil; and when you created a bird-shape out of clay