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Assalamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu. Alhamdulillahi wa-salaatu wa-salamu ala malanabiyya

bada. So dear brothers and sisters, after Mashallah, Tawarak al Alhamdulillah, so many

lectures about Adam, what we can learn from the story of Adam. We are now down to the very,

very, very last lecture. This is it. This is the finale of the Prophet Adam alaihi s-salam

for our series. And I have saved one of the most difficult topics, if not the most difficult,

for the last. And frankly, I have been dreading this topic since the very beginning. Perhaps even I

confess I might have gone into too many tangents to kind of delay this one. But the time has come

to discuss one of the thorniest and one of the most problematic issues from modern times. And that

is what do we as Muslims do in light of the Adamic story vis-a-vis the almost unanimous consensus

of all factions of the scientific community regarding the notions of man having evolved from

previous life forms over the course of many, many millions of years. Now, obviously this is not

a series of biology and perhaps many of you who are watching this series are not specialists in

biology or evolution. And I have a confession to make neither am I. I am not a biologist. I'm not

an evolutionary biologist. In fact, let me also confess that I never really quite liked the

science of biology even as a child. And I have not touched the subject as an entire discipline

since high school, which by the way is ironic because my wife is a biology high school teacher.

So go figure that. But I haven't touched a biology really since high school. And it's not something

I'm going to be teaching you in this series. So if you're not knowledgeable in biology and

evolutionary biology will firstly join the club. And obviously this is not the time or place to

give you a crash course. And neither am I the best teacher for that subject. However, for today's

lecture, because we're dealing with Adam, Ali, his salam and because we're living in modern times

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