"Abraham was not a Jew nor a Christian, but he was (an) upright (man), a Muslim; and he was not one of the polytheists."

-Holy Qu'ran 3:68

I chose the above verse from the Holy Qu'ran, because it contains a key element to the point I want to make about the "evolution of man." Those who adhere to Darwinism and the process of natural selection ask the question of "When did man begin to walk upright?" The most notable evolutionary diagram is a depiction of a primative creature that progresses through five stages and ends up at the final stage as an upright Homo sapien. In the the development of children from birth, they go through a similar stage from crawling to being able to walk. This physical process is also a sign of the the natural process of maturity that also takes place in the development of a human being.

So, what does this say about the evolution of man on a bigger scale? Well, in a lecture recently given by The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan entitled "Put On The New Man", he said (and I am paraphasing) that prophets came to show man that he could go further. He compared them to school teachers in that no matter how much you like your first grade teacher, you will eventually have to go to second grade. This shows that God sent the prophets to progress and "evolve" man into a better product. One of the definitons for evolution in the Merriam-Webster Dictionary is "a process of continuous change from a lower, simpler, or worse to a higher, more complex, or better state; growth." God through the prophets and messengers has been raising Man up degree by degree until he reaches a valuable final product. This is why Jesus in the Bible says "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect. (Mt. 5:48)" The valuable final product that Man is being raised to attain is, what God created us to be from beginning, a representation of Him on Earth. This is also why the Bible says, "I have said, Ye [are] gods; and all of you [are] children of the most High. (Ps. 82:6)"

According the the teachings of the The Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad, a savage is "one who has lost the knowledge of themself and is living a beast way of life." Man has lost the power and knowledge of what God originally made him, which is His caliphate, or vicegerent on Earth, but God being the Most Merciful, intends to bring Man back to this position. Being upright is what is suppose to separate and gives Man mastery over all the other beasts in creation, but when man loses the knowledge of himself and the knowledge of God, then he is also turned into a beast. The Bible tells us to "count the number of the beast, because it is also the number of man; and his number [is] Six hundred threescore [and] six." Six represents incompletion or imperfection. The perfection of Man is the real evolution.