Subject: [Masjid Tucson] Submission weekly reminder In the name of God, Most Gracious, Most Merciful Peace be upon you, We learn from the Quran that evolution is a divinely designed fact. God tells us that life began in water: "From water we initiated all living things." (Quran 21:30, 24:45) And that, Humans are not descendants of monkeys: "He started the creation of man from mud." (Quran 32:7) Evolution is possible only within a given species. For example, the navel orange evolved from seeded oranges, not from apples. The laws of probability preclude the possibility of haphazard evolution between species. A fish cannot evolve into a bird; a monkey can never evolve into a human. More details are available in the article "Evolution: Divinely Controlled" at http://www.masjidtucson.org/quran/appendices/appendix31.html Peace.