Charles Darwin, in his book "ORIGIN OF SPECIES" was only copying an Islamic scholar, Ibn Maskawayh, who lived about a 1000 years before Darwin set sail to Galapagos Islands.

http://exmypar.wordpress.com/2007/10/07/islamic-theory-of-evolution/

Darwin only had an old Maskawayh book, which unfortunately missed the last original chapter of the old master´s writings..

Hence Darwin could only manage to summarize the steps of evolution as,

- inert material

- microorganisms 

- simple plants

- trees

- primitive animals

- monkeys

- humans

The next three steps can only be found in the full version of the master´s book:

-prophets

-angels

-the divine intellect

Believe it, or not !

oh noooooooooooooooo!

alpha has again discovered Amrika!

this must be definetly noted in protocol ProtoKώλοσ

 Nice post AlphaF....

Here is a link to the article...that can be easily clicked on.

Here is the blog with links to other articles....

Alpha mentioned the same subject some time ago. It is a repeat

 Well, he is not the only one to repost the same subject.  You have to keep repeating some things for it to sink in. Anyway, the fact that he posted the same subject some time ago does not diminish the value of the post, or the subject. Gee...how many times have the same things been posted over and over again.

At any rate, if and when he posted it in the past, I didn´t see it....so I´m glad he reposted it.

That is fair, Alameda, good point.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_Islamic_philosophy#Evolution

 I have never mentioned Mr. Maskawayh before....Repeat "NEVER" .

Wasn´t Alpha´s last post about Darwin this one:  http://www.turkishclass.com/forumTitle_26665

not the same thing at all was it?

 telltale,telltale...but you are not going to cry,are you Ros?

Darwin is not the first one to write about evolution, not even in the Western world.

That Darwin´s theory of evolution is so popular and pumped up in the West today is not without reason.  Probably through no personal fault of Mr. Darwin himself (Darwin was a scientist, not a politician), his theory that only the strongest should and will survive is the political ideology behind the  agressive  Neocon philosophies/policies today.

Other well known scientists, like Lamarck,  recognised the process of evolution long before Darwin was on the subject. Lamarck and Darwin definitely agreed on evolution, but differed on how this evolution is driven.

Today many enviromentalists  and mollecular biologists also differ from Darwin, and   are well aware that evolution is not the consequence of a bloody fight for survival, in which only the strongest prospere; but that it is rather a phenomena which involves cooperation and mutual support not only within a given species - but also between different species.

Three cheers  for Mr. Maskawayh !