1st Ramadan Iftar Tonight!
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~ As salamu alaykum ~
1st Community Iftar Tonight!
Please join us tonight at Maghrib for our first community iftar of the year.
Venue: Morgan Hill Community Center
Address: 17000 Monterey Rd, Morgan Hill, CA 95037
Fasting:Where Religion Meets Evolution
The Quran exhorts us to fast as . . . it was decreed for those before you, that you may attain salvation. (2:183; approximate translation.)
Taking a much broader or stretching the meaning of those before you to include our hunter-gatherer ancestors, extending the meaning of fasting to mean sustained periods without food, and interpreting salvation to mean survival, the essence of thatayatis one of the few certitudes that both faith and science share.
The signal difference between the fasting (or periods without food) of our hunter-gatherer ancestors versus the current practices of many faiths, as well as health enthusiasts, is the factor of volition. Unlike our ancestors whohadto endure periods without food because of the environment, as with poor hunting seasons, todays faithful and health enthusiastschooseto forego food for specified periods of time.
Our biology however does not appreciate such differences. Click here to read the full article.
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