Evolution In The Light Of The Quran
Also when Allah says Adam AS was made a successor on the Earth (calipha)- who was this succession done to? It seems it could’ve been other humans. Does Ghamidi sahab say this simply means he had the ability of free will?
I do not think so. Does that means Allah made Adam with actual mud and suddenly turned him to flesh and Allah is trying to say that he did the same with Jesus? I think both are directly created from dirt. The question is how much processing of dirt was involved. Adam was created with least processed dirt, then Jesus and then all of us.
According to this view, Adam AS was selected, so while he did have humanoid parents, he was the first human because he was granted consciousness. That’s why the story of human creation starts from him. Sure there could be many humanoid species before Adam AS.