Evolution, Intelligent Design and Muslim Evolutionists

Abstract

Evolution met its most serious challenge through the work of scien- tists and philosophers who connected with the Intelligent Design Movement. ID scientists and theorists have used scientific proofs and philosophical arguments to show how specified complexity cannot be produced by random and chance processes. Pre-modern Muslim scholars had also produced a large body of scholarly works on Design. How can these two design theologies come together? In this conversation, William Dembski, one of the most important voices in the ID movement, and Muzaffar Iqbal discuss the rise of evolution, its various versions, the recent emergence of Muslim evo- lutionists, the relationship between the design arguments in the Islamic tradition and arguments expounded by the ID scientists and philosophers and possible future cooperation between the two sides.