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Innate Ability To Distinguish Between Beauty And Ugliness, Good And Bad
There is a theory that humans have the ability to, by themselves, distinguish between beauty and ugliness. He poses that you teach your child a few things are ‘good’ and he will then use these words to give rise to his own ideas of beauty.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PktUzdnBqWI
This video suggests that this ability arises from the evolution of man, and how beauty usually meant skill and thought and therefore certain and landscapes were thought of as ‘beautiful’. It also suggests how we find beauty in animals as we find satisfaction in proteins and meat. So, as an evolutionary tactic, we are satisfied and pleased by merely looking at them.
Please do watch the video before commenting as I probalby didn’t do justice.
If the ability of beauty is based in evolution and society. Then how can we claim that the conscioussness of good and bad, and acts associated with them aren’t the same? Could these have developed during the fashioning and perfection phase in the creation of al-insan?
Why should we accept this conscioussness of morality when it clashes with reason if the base of it is mere natural processes- which don’t always ensue truth?
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Innate Ability To Distinguish Between Beauty And Ugliness, Good And Bad
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Ghamidi Sahab is answering the very question here, Please listen to this from 32:12 to 40:30
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The binai istadlaal is that we see evolution occurring in petri dish. Then we can draw an analogy of how organisms evolved and eventually inherited this ability of ‘pretty’ and ‘ugly’. Eg we find excretion disgusting. Because it has bacteria and people die or get unwell from it. So over time only the people who stayed away stayed alive and the evolutionary mechanism made it so, to stay very safe, the also find it ‘ugly’
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Could these abilities have developed during the fashioning and perfection phase in the creation of al-insan?
Since the Quran is also a binai istadlaal
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The example of petri dish you just gave was that ‘tiddi on whose skeleton you’re trying to create a whole elephant‘
Analogy is not a scientific argument.
Quran is very clear on this issue that consciousness of good and evil was built-in in our nafoos. The application of it may vary and major doubts that could’ve had happened in its application were cleared through revelation.
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Ok thanks so much for this explanation 😀
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