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To: GodGunsGuts
Nothing in there about school kids in the Levant learning about Darwin's theory of evolution through natural selection.

School kids in the Islamic Middle East learn Creationism.

Hameed S (2008). “Bracing for Islamic creationism”. Science 322 (5908): 1637–8. doi:10.1126/science.1163672 (inactive 2008-12-16).

A 2007 study of religious patterns found that only 8% of Egyptians, 11% of Malaysians, 14% of Pakistanis, 16% of Indonesians, and 22% of Turks agree that Darwin's theory is probably or most certainly true, and a 2006 survey reported that about a quarter of Turkish adults agreed that human beings evolved from earlier animal species. In contrast, the 2007 study found that only 28% of Kazakhs thought that evolution is false; this fraction is much lower than the roughly 40% of U.S. adults with the same opinion.[1]

From the Christian Science Monitor....

Creationism has actually been a part of the Turkish science curriculum since 1985, when it was added by government order, and many scientists now fear that it will soon be too hard to uproot.

“The general state of science education is very bad in the sense that evolution and creationism are taught together, and they can't be taught together. If they are, no scientific thinking can be established in these students,” says Aykut Kence, a professor of biology at Ankara's Middle East Technical University.

“We are going to fall behind the modern countries in terms of development, economy, culture. Everything.”

111 posted on 04/14/2009 3:54:25 PM PDT by allmendream ("Wealth is EARNED not distributed, so how could it be redistributed?")
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To: allmendream

Once again, you have no clue what you are talking about. The teaching of evolution is quite common in Muslim countries, as even the Evos themselves admit:

“evolution is taught in high schools in many Muslim countries, although this is often in a very religious environment, Hameed says. Also, science foundations in 14 Muslim countries recently signed on to a statement in support of the teaching of evolution, including human evolution...”

http://www.livescience.com/culture/081211-islam-evolution.html

As usual, you don’t have a clue what you are talking about, dreamer. And you have still not provided a shred of evidence that they teach creation science in PLO(PA)/HAMAS/Al-Qaeda schools and training camps. All you can point to is average Muslims (as opposed to terrorists) rejecting British atheism being shoved down their throats. Let me know when you find some evidence that SPECIFICALLY addresses my questions. But like I said, I won’t be holding my breath, because, as I have already SPECIFICALLY demonstrated, Arafat/Fatah were revolutionary materialists (read: Marxist-Leninist), and thus would not go near creation science in a million years.


112 posted on 04/14/2009 4:34:51 PM PDT by GodGunsGuts
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To: allmendream
LOL!!! From your beloved Evo-science journal Nature. Boy, they sure sound creationist alright! Like I said, you have no clue what you are talking about:

Revival in Iran

"Whatever its motivation, Iran's support for education and science is to be welcomed.

...One practical advantage for science in Muslim countries is the lack of direct interference of religious doctrine, such as exists in many Christian countries."

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v442/n7104/full/442719b.html

113 posted on 04/14/2009 4:58:31 PM PDT by GodGunsGuts
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