an article on islamic creationism worldwide. it seems that this will become more of an issue as a larger proportion of muslims come face to face with contemporary biological science (the salience of the issue in turkey is the relative prominence of darwinian ideas of long standing among the secular segment). unfortunately 30 minutes couldn’t find much quantitative data.
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thabet 4:16 am on September 20, 2008 Permalink |
It seems as though the Turkish military establishment helped push creationism into the mainstream in the 80s as sort of cultural counterbalance to left wing groups.