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Qur’an 15:26 and related Adam-creation passages, Quranic Arabic Corpus translation interface, https://corpus.quran.com/translation.jsp?chapter=15&verse=26 (accessed 2026-08-10).

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Human Origins

Why Ancient Inquiry uses this citation here

Direct Qur’anic passage for human creation from clay, retained with chapter/verse and translation context.

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Does not collapse Islamic interpretation into one reading or establish a biological mechanism.
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Genesis, Qur’anic, and Mesopotamian sources include human-creation imagery involving earth, dust, clay, breath, or divine material, but each belongs to a distinct textual and living interpretive tradition.

Answer / theory: Many traditions use clay, earth, breath, or divine material to explain human creation. What supports it: Genesis and multiple comparative traditions. What is weak or disputed: Literal biological interpretation. Evidence level: Strong Evidence as mythic motif, weak as literal science.
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