Revelation, Rationality, Knowledge & Truth — Page 385
THE ESSENTIAL ROLE OF CLAY. AND PHOTOSYNTHESIS IN EVOLUTION known as glycine. The cycling transfers energy from the environment to the organic molecule. ³. Their proposed solution was very close to the one presented by the Quran but it was Cairns-Smith who even more clearly and unreservedly supported the Quran while he was absolutely unaware of any Quranic statement on this subject. 7. HE relevant verses of the Quran are repeated below: 21:31 وَجَعَلْنَا مِنَ الْمَاءِ كُلِّ شَيْءٍ حَيْ. With water did We create every living thing . . خَلَقَ الْإِنْسَانَ مِنْ صَلْصَالٍ كَالْفَجَّارِ * 55:15 4. He created man from dry ringing clay like pieces of pottery. وَلَقَدْ خَلَقْنَا الْإِنْسَانَ مِنْ صَلْصَالٍ مِّنْ حَمَإٍ مَسْنُونٍ * 15:27. And, surely, We created man from dry ringing clay made from stagnant blackish mud. 6. It is worthy of note here that these verses clearly state that the material used for the making of pottery-like plates was decayed organic matter. A stagnant blackish mud. s the translators could not visualize how man could have been moulded out of pottery, they inferred that the pottery was only mentioned because pieces of pottery struck against other pieces of pottery would emit a ringing sound. Thus they thought that the relevant verse hinted at the human faculty of speech. This is a very far374