by The Seeker on November 22nd, 2009

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Does Islam teach Evolution
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by ACCOUNT CLOSED on November 22nd, 2009
Most religious Muslim academics deny Darwinian evolution, whereas some try to make it conform to Islamic teachings, to make it seem like a natural fit with Quranic verses.

Just like Christian academics, many of whom deny it, while some try to make it conform to Biblical verses.

It doesn't really fit with EITHER of them, though, scientifically speaking. When the pressure to conform is added, the facts start to intermingle with opinions and faith-based affirmations.
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by Isaac on November 22nd, 2009
No.

And what's with this label "Darwinism"?
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- haha good question.
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by level headed on November 22nd, 2009
I don't think so. Their version of Genesis is similar to the Bibles version.
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by Darth NANAME on November 22nd, 2009
I imagine it's the same with every other religions: The fundamentalists (less than 20% of them) teach that it's evil and wrong and false, and the mainstream (the rest) teach you to believe what you want to believe.
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- In the US, 39% flat out reject evolution, mainly motivated by Christian dogma. In some Muslim countries, teaching evolution is illegal and the percentage of creationists is probably higher than 90%. I'm afraid there are much more fundamentalsts than you thought..
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  by 773491 on November 23rd, 2009
- Keep in mind that most Muslim governments are third-world countries with almost non-existent educational standards, and are controlled by the radical minorities. Since hating those people for not following evolution is like hating a medieval peasant for not being able to write his name, I didn't feel it necessary to include that in my explanation.
  
  It is also very easy to fudge the truth with statistics. And with religion being the most controversial and heavily biased topic in the world, pretty much any statistic regarding it will have to be taken with a large grain of salt.
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  by Darth NANAME on November 23rd, 2009
- I never said anything about hating people for what they believe. I just think the number of fundamentalists worldwide is scary. I'm actually writing a paper on the acceptance of evolution. I've got my stats from scientific journals, they're pretty accurate and I don't think religion biases it in any way. Because religious people too can accept science, and many of them fortunately do.
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by Sharona Life is a Tale Told by an Idiot on November 22nd, 2009
They wouldn't waste their time on bothering.
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by Moongrim on December 31st, 2009
If Evolution/Darwinism was thought of as being a wonderful thing by the majority of the world, Muslims would claim that the Q'uran taught it first.
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