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To: GodGunsGuts
The vast majority of people within the Muslim world do NOT accept the theory of evolution through natural selection. What is it they believe instead? They believe in CREATIONISM.

They teach Creationism in the Middle East religious schools or madrases.

From your same source...

Like with Christians or Jews, there is no consensus or “official” opinion on evolution among Muslims. However, some of them say that the theory is a cultural threat that acts as a force in favor of atheism, says Hampshire College’s Salman Hameed in an essay in the Dec. 12 issue of the journal Science. This is the same beef that some Christians have with evolution.

However, a general respect for science in the Islamic world means scientists have an opportunity to counter anti-evolution efforts, including the “Atlas of Creation,” a glossy 850-page color volume produced by Muslim creationist Adnan Oktar who goes by the name of Harun Yahya. Numerous university scientists and members of the media received copies of this book as an unsolicited gift in 2007.

“There is a standard narrative that science and Islam are compatible, but evolution is one thought that challenges this assumption,” Hameed told LiveScience. “It's interesting to see how people respond to it and create their world view in response to that challenge.”

Also as I pointed out before...

Still, today, only 25 percent of adults in Turkey agree that human beings developed from earlier species of animals, whereas 40 percent of people in the United States agree with this scientific fact, Hameed writes. And Turkey is one of the most secular and educated of Muslim countries.

Hameed cites data from a 2007 sociological study by Riaz Hassan which revealed that only a minority in five Muslim countries agree that Darwin’s theory of evolution is probably or most certainly true: 16 percent of Indonesians, 14 percent of Pakistanis, 8 percent of Egyptians, 11 percent of Malaysians and 22 percent of Turks.

114 posted on 04/15/2009 1:29:45 PM PDT by allmendream ("Wealth is EARNED not distributed, so how could it be redistributed?")
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To: allmendream

The vast majority of people in the Muslim world probably don’t even know what creation science or Darwood’s ToE even means, or what all the fuss is about. However, of those that do, creation science is a pretty new phenomenon for most Muslims, so the idea that they have been teaching this as part of their standard education is a non-starter in so far as the vast majority of Islamic schools are concerned. Thus, the idea that they are teaching creation science in PLO/HAMAS/Al-Qaeda schools and training camps is complete hogwash. And by now, EVEN YOU should know this...that is, if you weren’t willfully blind.


115 posted on 04/15/2009 1:38:24 PM PDT by GodGunsGuts
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To: allmendream

The vast majority of Muslims are right-handed and do not accept the theories of climate change or gay marriages, unless they are told in the schools, newspapers, or TV, that these are the latest western fashions and define who you are. It makes just as little sense to define Muslim faith by what average Muslims think of Creationism versus Evolutionarism, which is not really an issue in the Quran. There has never been such a tradition of debating Darwin in the Muslim world - or even in Europe - as there is in the USA. Thus a correlation between being a Muslim and having seriously thought over any such issues, what ever way, is irrelevant. We could ask Muslims around the world lots of questions and get statistics that correlate rather with urbanization or frequence of TV sets than with the essence of religion.

If most Muslims are creationists and right-handed, and some Muslims are terrorists, it does not mean that being right-handed is related to terrorism. It is indeed a fact, that terrorists are rather godless people than true believers in any religion. Teaching Darwin to Muslims would not save us from acts of terror. Teaching Islam to Muslims might be of better use, because religious people of all faith tend to develop a sense of morals and purpose of life, which gives birth to respect for life and concern (if not fear) of the consequences of death - call that a creation or evolution of resistence against terrorist ideologies!


116 posted on 04/16/2009 2:13:10 AM PDT by Frontier Post
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