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john hawks weblog: A view of global creationism
Why Evolution Is True: Creationism in Muslim countries
NCSE - National Center for Science Education - Defending the Teaching of Evolution in Public Schools.: Islamic creationism in the news
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If Genesis had indicated a "day" of creation being metaphorical, the debate on evolution would be very different. http://tinyurl.com/ybm2vje 17 days ago |
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@KanchanGupta Check out for the Creationism story: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/03/science/03islam.html 18 days ago |
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RT @IslandBookworm Surprise: Far more Pakistanis than Americans believe in evolution http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/03/science/03islam.html 19 days ago |
A view of global creationism
john hawks weblog —
... Kenneth Chang reports on a recent conference that gathered academics to discuss creationism in a global context: "Creationism, Minus a Young Earth, Emerges in the Islamic World". The discussion of evolution education too often focuses on the issues within the United States. Chang gives only a brief glimpse, but it has interesting moments: ...
Creationism in Muslim countries
Why Evolution Is True —
... Over at the New York Times, Kenneth Chang reports on the growth of creationism in Islamic countries. Upshot: it’s getting worse, but there’s a big variance. Surprisingly, it looks as if Pakistan is more Darwin-friendly than the US: ...
Islamic creationism in the news
NCSE - National Center for Science Education - Defending the Teaching of Evolution in Public Schools. —
[image] The phenomenon of Islamic creationism was addressed by two major newspapers, The New York Times (November 3, 2009) and the Boston Globe (October 25, 2009), in the wake of a recent conference at Hampshire College on evolution in the Muslim world. (Webcasts of the conference presentations will be available on-line by November 15, 2009, according to the conference website .) The Globe 's article began arrestingly, with the news that the Arabic-language version of Al Jazeera's website — a major news source in the Middle East — triumphantly misdescribed ...
Islamic Creationism in the News
Greg Laden's Blog —
... with the idea of human evolution in particular. "[T]he fact that there is a creationist debate at all can be seen as a sort of progress," the Globe observed. "In the most conservative parts of the Muslim world, creationism isn't a political or philosophical force because it doesn't need to be -- there aren't enough people who believe in evolution, or have even been exposed to it, to require a counter-doctrine." For the stories in the Times and the Globe, visit: this and this . Information about the Hampshire conference. Information from Science about
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American Scientist Online —
... . The evidence suggests that deforestation for agriculture by the ancient civilization left the landscape vulnerable to a devastating El Niño-fueled flood. And, finally, academics reported that creationism is increasingly being embraced by Muslims , but that those who believe God made the universe in just a few thousand years are rare. The Koran's metaphorical reckoning of time was cited as the main reason.
