The Distinctive Features of Religious Schools

limitations, they can never truly know the real starting point of any issue. As a result, minds trained in such institutions are perpetually fumbling intellectually and never reach the level of true knowledge. In contrast, religious seminaries, based on divine knowledge, are in a position to identify the correct starting point in every matter right from the beginning, thus avoiding intellectual confusion. One example of this is the philosophy of the evolution of life. In this matter, individuals educated in nonreligious institutions had no known principle for the starting point. They speculated and established the hypothesis of biological evolution. For over a hundred years, numerous brilliant minds spent their lives trying to prove this hypothesis. Thousands of billions of dollars were spent. Yet, despite their lofty claims, their hypothesis remains just that—a hypothesis. Despite all the efforts, it has not advanced beyond this stage. Consequently, even the scholars who research the theory of evolution admit that it is still only a workable theory, not a proven scientific fact. In contrast, the mind of a person trained in a religious seminary is clear from the very beginning. Based on the Quran, they are certain from day one that human life began through divine creation, not merely through the evolution of unconscious material factors. Thus, a person from a religious seminary finds the correct starting point on the very first day in matters