Posted: Jan 16, 2011 10:19 am
Ok, so there are no such statistics, it seems. That's a bit unfortunate.
Depends on what you define as "Muslim". When Islamic organizations in Sweden wants something (like legalization of Halal slaughter), they invoke all people from Muslim countries as "Muslims", despite that far from all of them are religious, and indeed, you can find some of the most anti-Islam people among them.
However, among serious practicing Muslims (as opposed to merely cultural Muslims), I'd say that creationism is pretty widespread. Just look at this fatwa, the Quran trumps any scientific evidence.
IanS wrote:DaveScriv wrote:I wonder how many of those who said 'false' in the UK, France, Germany, etc., were Muslims?
(rather than fundie Christians, as presumably most were in the US)
With reference to the UK in particular (since I'm in the UK, and have particular concern about what happens here) - I'd be interested to know if any polls have asked the more direct question of UK Muslims, namely - what proportion of Muslims in UK think evolution is false, and how many of them think god directly made man instead?
Depends on what you define as "Muslim". When Islamic organizations in Sweden wants something (like legalization of Halal slaughter), they invoke all people from Muslim countries as "Muslims", despite that far from all of them are religious, and indeed, you can find some of the most anti-Islam people among them.
However, among serious practicing Muslims (as opposed to merely cultural Muslims), I'd say that creationism is pretty widespread. Just look at this fatwa, the Quran trumps any scientific evidence.