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To: betty boop
The statement -- "Islamofascists are 'creationists'" -- is completely nonsensical to me.

!?!

Wikipedia: Islamic creationism

Check out some of the links to Islamic creationism/antievolution sites. Much of the material is virtually identical to the output of American creationist orgs like the ICR. Islamic and Christian antievolution orgs have cooperated in conferences and the like.

The wiki article notes some differences in emphasis and flavor, and that Islam has liberals who accept evolution just like Christianity does, but to say you can't even imagine fundamentalist Muslims being creationists...

You're really not putting us on?

Really?

145 posted on 06/22/2007 10:35:32 AM PDT by Stultis (I don't worry about the war turning into "Vietnam" in Iraq; I worry about it doing so in Congress.)
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To: Stultis; js1138; tacticalogic; stuartcr; Alamo-Girl; spirited irish; hosepipe
Check out some of the links to Islamic creationism/antievolution sites.

Stultis, let's face it: you call any person who disagrees with orthodox evolution theory a "creationist." And so does Wikipedia. I find Wikipedia to be quite "progressive" in the way it presents its subject matter -- progressive, that is, in the same sense that a Hillary Clinton or a Ted Kennedy is said to be "progressive." (Seems more like regressive to me....)

To me, a creationist involves a lot more than just being "anti-evo." Indeed, there may be creationists who don't object to evolution theory in principle (indeed, I am such a one). The objection, if there be any, is to the idea that life and biology are the result of a purely materially based, more or less accidental development. As Jacques Monod said, matter and "pure blind chance" are the root of life and its evolution. That no creationist can accept.

153 posted on 06/22/2007 11:12:32 AM PDT by betty boop ("Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind." -- A. Einstein)
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