Adam: Between Evolution, Theistic Evolution & Revelation

This work is a qualitative study in which the story of Adam has been examined from different scientific and religious approaches. The study analyzed different accounts of the main theories and addressed the critical issue of the Origin of Man. It compared the origin of man from a religious perspective and concluded the most authentic account of the story of Adam. A critical analysis was done on the basis of the Theory of Evolution, Theistic Evolutionary Approaches, focusing on the Islamic perspective, to interpret the account of Adam mentioned in the religious texts. The study concluded that the non-methodological, inauthentic and contradicting attempts to interpret the religious account of Adam from an evolutionary perspective were completely unsuccessful, affirming miraculous creation of Adam as detailed in the Qur’an and authentic Sunnah.