Muslim students, including trainee doctors on one of Britain's leading medical courses, are walking out of lectures on evolution claiming it conflicts with creationist ideas established in the Koran.
Professors at University College London have expressed concern over the increasing number of biology students boycotting lectures on Darwinist theory, which form an important part of the syllabus, citing their religion.
Similar to the beliefs expressed by fundamentalist Christians, Muslim opponents to Darwinism maintain that Allah created the world, mankind and all known species in a single act.
Steve Jones emeritus professor of human genetics at university college London has questioned why such students would want to study biology at all when it obviously conflicts with their beliefs.
For the money and prestige of being a doctor, silly.
I have news for them...
Earlier this year Usama Hasan, iman of the Masjid al-Tawhid mosque in Leyton, received death threats for suggesting that Darwinism and Islam might be compatible.
Sources within the group Muslims4UK partly blame the growing popularity of creationist beliefs within Islam on Turkish author Harun Yahya who, influenced by the success of Christian creationists in Ame
rica, has written several books denouncing Darwinist theory.
Yahya associates Dawinism with Nazism and his books are and videos are available at many Islamic bookshops in the UK and regularly feature on Islamic television channels.
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Yahya associates Islamism Dawinism with Nazism and his books are and videos are available at many Islamic bookshops in the UK and regularly feature on Islamic television channels.
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teaching Biology without Darwinism would be like teaching economics without Ricardo, Hayek and Smith.
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I can hardly wait for Yahya's next book:
"the earth is not round and it stands on the backs of four elephants who stand on a giant sea turtle who stand on giant serpent who......."
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Sounds like the Musicians of Bremen fairy tale, Fat Bob.
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My quran sez that Alexander the Great reached the place where the Sun sets, and found a tribe of swamp dwellers. But...if the Sun can be shown not to set on Earth, then maybe the quran would be better used for toilet paper.
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