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People who refuse to recognize evolution have a Quranic mindset which shuts out the vast amount of evidence which clearly indicates that life DID evolve, that the early fossil record shows very primitive simple life forms, that successive geological deposits have revealed increasingly more complex life forms which bear obvious anatomical resemblence to existing or later forms.

I guess I wonder what you mean by "evolution." There is a vast amount of evidence in the archaeological record that shows very simple architectural forms and we find increasingly complicated architectures which bear obvious resemblance to the forms we see today. So architecture has evolved to my way of thinking.

Is this what you mean?

Or do you think that new species arose from old ones after random mutations and natural selection over zillions of years?

I don't believe in this last notion; and I assure you I do not have a "Quranic mindset." As for "evidence," I see the evidence for speciation as "nebulous and untestable," but maybe that's just because of my scientific training.

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"Or do you think that new species arose from old ones after random mutations and natural selection over zillions of years?"

Yes.

"I don't believe in this last notion; and I assure you I do not have a "Quranic mindset." As for "evidence," I see the evidence for speciation as "nebulous and untestable," but maybe that's just because of my scientific training."

Based on my scientific backgroud - several degrees in the biological sciences, I believe in evolution.

As for the issue of Quranic mondset - if the Bible specifically stated evolution was a fact, would you believe it then?

Maybe we should wait till the ID and Creationists folks start digging up Giraffe, Lion, and Bear bones that are mixed in with sediments that are 2 Billion years old?

Hint: It ain't gonna happen, cause that's not how things work.