Why is it mistaken to think that God could have created living things
by evolution ?

While it has been scientifically proven that the magnificent design
apparent in all living and non-living things in the universe could not
have come about by the blind forces of nature and chance, some people
nevertheless claim that there is indeed a Creator, but that He created
life through an evolutionary process.

It is evident that God, the Almighty, created the whole universe and
life. It is His decision whether creation should be instantaneous or by
stages. We can only understand how it happened by means of the
information God has given us (in other words, from the verses of the
Qur'an), and the scientific evidence apparent in nature.

When we look at these two sources, we see no case for "creation by
evolution."
God has revealed many verses in the Qur'an which deal with the creation
of man, life, and the universe. None of these verses contains any
information about creation through evolution. In other words, not one
verse indicates that living things came about by evolving from one
another. On the contrary, it is revealed in those verses that life and
the universe were brought into being by God's command "Be!"

Scientific discoveries have also revealed that "creation by means of
evolution" is out of the question. The fossil record shows that
different species emerged not by evolving from one another, but
independently, suddenly, and with all their individual structures. In
other words, creation is different for every species.

If there were such a thing as "creation by means of evolution," we
should be able to see the proof of it today. God has created everything
in a particular order, within a framework of causes and laws. For
instance, it is most certainly God Who makes ships float on water.
However, when we look for the cause of this, we see that it is the
creation of the supporting power of water. It is nothing other than the
might of God that allows birds to fly. In fact, when we examine how it
happens, we find the laws of aerodynamics. For this reason, if life had
been created by a process of various stages, there would obviously be
systems that provide the laws and advances in genetics to explain it.
Furthermore, other physical, chemical, and biological laws would be
known. There would be proof from laboratory research to show that one
living species could turn into another. Yet again, it should be
possible thanks to that research to develop enzymes, hormones, and
similar molecules that a species lacks in order to bring advantages to
it. In addition, it would be possible to create new organelles and
structures that the living thing in question had never possessed
before.

Laboratory studies would be able to show examples of creatures that had
been mutated and actually benefited from the process. We would
furthermore see that these mutations could be passed on to subsequent
generations and actually become a part of the species. Then again,
there would be millions of fossils of intermediate forms that had lived
in the past, and there would be living things in our time that had not
yet completed their transition processes. In short, there should be
countless examples of such a process.

However, there is not a single piece of evidence that one species
transmutates into another. As we have already seen, fossil data show
that living species emerged all at once, with no ancestors behind them.
In the same way as this fact destroys the theory of evolution, which
claims that life came about by chance, it also shows the scientific
invalidity of the claim that God brought life into being and then it
evolved by stages.

God created living things in a supernatural way, by the single command
"Be!" Modern science confirms this fact, and proves that living things
emerged suddenly on the Earth.
Those who support the idea that "It is possible that God created living
things by means of evolution" are actually trying to build
"reconciliation" between creation and Darwinism. They are making a
fundamental mistake, however. They are missing the basic logic of
Darwinism and the kind of philosophy it serves. Darwinism does not
consist of the concept of the transmutation of species. It is actually
an attempt to explain the origin of living species by material factors
alone.
To put it another way, it tries to gain acceptance for the claim that
living things are the product of nature, by giving it a scientific
veneer. There can be no "common ground" between that naturalistic
philosophy and a belief in God. It is a grave error in an effort to
seek to find such common ground, to cede ground to Darwinism, and to
agree with the false claim that it is a scientific theory. As 150 years
of history have shown, Darwinism is the backbone of materialist
philosophy and atheism, and no search for common ground will ever
change the fact.