Posted on 11/20/2009 7:01:37 AM PST by Schnucki
Muslims in many countries are increasingly rejecting Darwin’s theory of evolution, under the influence of conservative elements in Islam, a science conference was told yesterday.
Nidhal Guessoum, Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the American University of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates, told the conference, being held in Egypt by the British Council, that in too many places students and academics believed they had to make a “binary choice” between evolution and creationism, rather than understanding that one could believe both in God and in Darwin’s theory.
Dr Guessoum, who is a Sunni Muslim, said that in countries such as Tunisia, Egypt, Turkey, Pakistan and Malaysia, only 15 per cent of those surveyed believed Darwin’s theory to be “true” or “probably true”. This stand was equally prevalent among students and teachers, from high school to university. Most alarmingly, he claimed, science teachers were misrepresenting the facts and theories of evolution by mixing it with religious ideologies.
A survey of 100 academics and 100 students that he conducted at his own university showed that 62 per cent of Muslim professors and students believed evolution to be an “unproven theory”, compared with 10 per cent of non-Muslim professors. “The rate of acceptance of evolution and of the idea of teaching evolution was extremely low,” he said. “I wondered, who are all these educated people rejecting evolution? They are even rejecting the fact that it should be taught as scientific knowledge.”
Evolution did not contradict Islamic beliefs, Dr Guessoum said, unless a literal reading of the texts were adopted. “Many Muslim scholars, from the golden age of Islam to today, adopted an evolutionary world view,” he said.
Addressing the conference in Alexandria, organised for the bicentenary of Darwin’s birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of On the Origin of Species,
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File this under “D”, for “Douchebags I don’t want on my side.”
Will the secular humanists stand up to islam?
This will be interesting to watch. The atheists of the church of darwinism are a rabid bunch; not even permitting academic freedom and research into anything that might challenge darwinism.
It was easy to form a unified blockade to bully and shut out the research Creationists and ruin careers of scientists questioning the theory of evolution when they could be smeared as Christians. How easy will it be this mob to persecute and blockade the research of the head choppers?
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Barack Hussien Obama
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Sorry, I just felt like singing a little.
I see where it would be hard to believe that you “evolved” from an animal that is more advanced than your average ululating sand-pounder.
Fundamentalism being defined as belief in the literal infallibility of the Bible or Koran.
Whatever.
We will see how big the darwinists are when they are facing having their heads chopped off by their Muslim scientific brothern for the kind of religious debasement and harassment the darwinists dish out on Christians who question evolution. Bet suddenly, research questioning Darwinism is just fine and dandy.
Get the popcorn! Hate is about to meet hate.
Imagine that. People who are ignorant in their field are unsuccessful and discriminated against.
I imagine that is about to change...chop, chop!
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