Science Investigates the Spread of Islamic Creationism
As already discussed by our friends over at the Daily Dish, the report by Salman Hameed, a lecturer at Hampshire College Massachusetts, considers the fact that “the next major battle over evolution is likely to take place in the Muslim world… Relatively poor education standards, in combination with frequent misinformation about evolutionary ideas, make the Muslim world a fertile ground for rejection of the theory”.
The article also throws up some shocking statistics. Out of six countries examined, five of them have populations where 50% of people reject evolution theory outright, and that’s not including those who believe that the theory is ‘probably untrue’. In Kazakhstan only around 28% of the population reject evolution, which is considerably less then in the United States (where 40% of the populace do not believe in evolution theory). Mull on that last statistic for a bit: the country that was so roundly mocked in Borat for being backwards is turning out to be one of the most progressive nations around.