Do you believe in evolution or what your holy book says?

[Turkish Delight]

That's what i believe too.

I had this conversation with the guy who i share an office with at work. He was so against the idea of pre-determined life. He asked me then why does God choose to to give some people really short life spans (as in dying during childhood) if he is supposed to be a good God and that we should follow in his footsteps. I had told him, it was a random selection and that if all people lived to 115, then the world would be overpopulated and resources which God has given to us to manage would diminish.

He asked why so many children from his family (back 200 years ago) died at such a young age due to illness? Survival of the fitest.

How does God choose who dies young and who dies when they are 105?

PS thanks for the link - i'll read up on it.

[Phteven]

IMO, a child who dies young has been blessed in a way. They are gauranteed paradise because they're not responsible for any sins they have comitted. I hope by that you don't think I'm trivialising the pain of those left behind. I guess to someone who doesn't believe in the afterlife a short life would seem a huge tragedy because that's the only life they see but if you believe in eternal existance the human life span in less than the blink of an eye even if you live to 100.
I guess that it does seem unfair that some people get so much and others get so little but Allah is fair so in the afterlife it all evens out. Suffering on Earth expediates our sins so in a way that too is a blessing.

Just my opinion