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To: SubGeniusX
"Prof Reiss says the rise of creationism is partly down to the large increase in Muslim pupils in UK schools."
7 posted on 10/05/2007 6:30:48 AM PDT by CarrotAndStick (The articles posted by me needn't necessarily reflect my opinion.)
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To: CarrotAndStick
"Prof Reiss says the rise of creationism is partly down to the large increase in Muslim pupils in UK schools."

First of all, I presume "down" is equivalent to "due" (I wish they'd speak proper English over there in ... England).
Secondly, a stuck clock will be right twice during the day, so trying to attach Biblical Creationism to 'islam' because they might agree on one point is not an argument but mudslinging.
And thirdly, I don't profess to be an expert on islam, but whenever I've checked, islam (e.g., 'ask islam', and other such sites on the web) seems to relish in the fact that they support evolution as a point to distinguish themselves from Bible believing Christians. Islam certainly believes in a Theistic guided evolution, but it is still evolution. E.g., below is an excerpt pulled from the website 'Understanding islam', that seems to be a fairly representative example of what I've read from other islamic sources:

The above verses clearly tell us that in the beginning man was created from clay. The words 'creation from clay', obviously, do not necessitate that God created an effigy of man from clay and then gave life to it. It may, as we know, imply that in the beginning man came into existence out of the earth [the mud or the clay etc. of the earth]. In other words, God inculcated in earth - mixed with water - the potential to produce life. Over centuries or even millennia, the life-bearing potential of the earth materialized and a species quite similar to, yet somewhat different from man was born[1]. This was the first stage in the creation of man, as is evidenced by the words: "He started the creation of man from clay".

I.e., I don't know of any islamic versions of Answers in Genesis, ICR, Ken Ham, etc...The islam position seems to be one of Theistic evolution.
This article seems to be projecting an association between a known bogyman (islam) and Creationism for the mere goal of browbeating Creationists.

204 posted on 10/05/2007 10:49:56 AM PDT by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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