Let me start by saying that I respect Aziz for his efforts in educating others to his religion, given that at the moment, some extremists are giving Muslims some really bad press.
I will point out that in history, the Crusaders and the Inquisitioners gave Christians a lot of bad press.
Aziz, your beliefs are yours. I don't share them but don't disrespect them either. My problem with the Bible, the Quran, and the Baghavad Vita are all the same. They are accounts written by people who, while educated as well as possible in their times, were woefully non-scientific. The people who witnessed the events that shaped the documents are long dead. The people who TRANSLATED the documents from older to newer forms are mostly dead (with exceptions such as the Dead Sea Scrolls and other similar findings.)
However, I must point out that your question regarding evolution and the apparently abrupt mutations are based on fossil evidence that is subject to more than one interpretation. It is not necessarily that one species died out and another took its place in a sudden matter. Some evidence has been found that we probably have a little bit of Neanderthal in us. But the continuity is there in the MITOCHONDRIAL DNA. The "tree of life" is now capable of showing chains of mutations as little as one gene at a time in cases. So the evidence for evolution is VERY strongly consistent.
Your attempt to show that the Quran describes creation better than the Bible suffers the same fate as the Bible does. Non-scientific witnesses who cannot be questioned, no physical evidence of creation, and poor science in those who try to disprove evolution.
Still, your post takes a different turn in some ways. By showing that the Quran is not incompatible with science, you make a better argument than some I have seen. But the logical conclusion is that the authors still anthropomorphised the forces that they believed were the cause of creation - because they didn't know any better.
Aziz, my beliefs and yours aren't necessarily compatible - yet that does not mean they must lead to physical conflict. And that is where religious extremists of ANY RELIGION WHATSOEVER have their terrible failing. They can't live with differences from THEIR opinions.
I offer you this statement: We can agree to disagree in peace if we so choose. Whether you are Christian, Jew, Muslim, Buddhist, or some other religion, I find that the old "Golden Rule" still applies. Treat others as you wish them to treat you. So Azis, may your days be filled with peace, learning, and prosperity.
