According to Muhammad Asad, "only water has the peculiar properties necessary for the emergence and development of life." Creation of humanity The first beings, Âdam and his wife (in Islamic tradition called Ḥawwāh: the Arabic for Eve), appear in the Quran as the first man and woman. The Quran states that they were created from water and extract of altered clay. This mixture is said to have been given time for it to develop and was brought to life by the blowing of soul into their bodies followed by the event of mass prostration to Adam and castration of prominent Jinns like Iblis. Some Islamic scholars proposed that the verses could have multiple interpretations metaphorically, as the Quran supports the idea that some verses have multiple meanings. The majority of Islamic scholars, including Yasir Qadhi, believe that Adam and Eve were naturally created through a miracle by God. Caner Taslaman, Mohamed Ghlian, Yaşar Nuri Öztürk, Adnan Ibrahim, Ghulam Ahmed Pervez, Edip Yüksel, and other modern and classical Islamic scholars have at times instead argued that the pair evolved naturally from a common ancestor. Some scholars stated that they believe in evolution, but they also argued that Adam and Eve were the only two exceptions that were created without an evolutionary process. In modern times, there has been increased support for the idea that humans evolved. Many Muslims base their belief of this idea on a chapter in the Quran, which says: While the evolutionist scholars argue this may refer to proto-human ancestors humans evolved from, the creationist scholars argue that the "predecessors" refer to those civilizations who have lived before. Statistics A 2000 study conducted by a researcher of the University of Oklahoma found that 19% of participants believed that Islam's tenets were not at odds with Darwin's theory of evolution while 81% believed there to be some form of conflict between Islam and Darwinism. One of the participants, an Islamic teacher, stood in opposition to the theory of evolution although was willing to accept certain aspects that were proposed by it. The participants who believed there to be no conflict between Islam and Darwin's theory of evolution were split as it pertained to the possible relationship between primates and humans with only 6% of participants seeing no issue with the assertion. As per a 2008 report, evolutionary biology was included in the high-school curricula of most Muslim countries. Science