Creationism Emerges in The islamic World
Harun Yahya
The New York Times, which is one of the largest dailies in the US, published in the New York City and has a circulation of over 1 million published an article named “Creationism, Minus a Young Earth, Emerges in the Islamic World” on November 3, 2009. The article talked about Mr. Adnan Oktar’s Atlas of Creation and the global impact of his anti-Darwinist activities. In the article in question, it is emphasized that the number of people who do not believe in Darwinism increased and the theory of evolution is questioned more among the students:
Creationism is growing in the Muslim world, from Turkey to Pakistan to Indonesia, international academics said last month as they gathered here to discuss the topic… More and more seem to be joInIng the ranks of the…old-Earth creatIonIsts. They quarrel with…biologists, insisting that life is the creation of God, not the happenstance consequence of random occurrences.
There is some indication that in the West…Islamic creationism may be stronger. For example, high school students at Islamic schools in and near Toronto were far more doubting of evolution than students in Indonesia or Pakistan, the McGill researchers found...
