What are homo habilus, homo erectus and homo neandertalensis if not our ancestors? I’ve never heard a compelling answer to that point. It’s not every gap in our genetic history that we’ve filled, but if evolution weren’t a measurable law of life, we couldn’t use it to predict which vaccines will be effective for which strains of diseases. We wouldn’t have punnett squares to predict the traits which plants and animals will present in future generations. To call that “faith” is wholly inaccurate.

Why do you think it’s that such a staggering majority of scientists that believe in evolution and natural selection? It’s this sort of reason I say that the Quran is unscientific. When a book is at odds with the scientific community, it’s not scientific. When you can’t perform an experiment to prove that we were descended from Adam and Eve, it’s an unscientific belief. On the other hand, there are experiments that can be performed today that verify evolution is taking place.

There might be some areas where the quran and science aren’t totally at odds, but to say the two haven’t been at war with each other for entire millennia is historically untrue. The quran is not a book of science in the same way that a science text book is. You wouldn’t turn toward the quran to pass your biology or chemistry exam. The people who wrote it didn’t yet even have an understanding of those subjects.

I get that any text is open to interpretation, but why wouldn’t the creator of the universe have the foresight to know people might read his text and think suicide bombing is okay? Again, it isn’t all religious texts that lend themselves to such grave interpretations.

I’d be very curious to hear Sam Harris say that. From my understanding, he’s still a pretty firm non-believer.