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Evolution and Muslim education, a survey
04.03.09 | Permalink | 1 Comment

A three-year ‘Islam and Evolution’ research project presented recently at McGill University in Montreal examined the understanding of evolution at the student, teacher and scientist level in Indonesia and Pakistan. According to the NatureNews article, the study, which surveyed 3,800 high-school students, found that students in these countries had a “good” understanding of evolution.
For example, [...]
Who is Dr. Oktar Babuna?
03.08.09 | Permalink | 2 Comments

I don’t know where I’ve been the past few years, but somehow I’ve failed to take notice of Dr. Oktar Babuna. Perhaps it’s because he’s a nobody. Or, perhaps it’s because every time I hear the name “Harun Yahya,” his mentor, I get a horrible migraine and can’t seem to concentrate. Anyway… Due to these [...]
Yahya’s cronie gets the ‘Holy’ boot
03.06.09 | Permalink | Comment?

This video is being carried by a few online resources, one of which is the blogger ‘Evangelical Examiner‘ for The Examiner. Like Mr. EE, each source is taking its own angle on the decrying of Vatican officials for booting Harun Yahya’s cronie, Dr. Oktar Babuna, off of the microphone when he began to question the [...]
The creationists are crying… they wanted to meet the Pope, too!
03.05.09 | Permalink | Comment?

I posted recently on the meeting convening at the Vatican on the “reconciliation” of evolution and religion, and how hilariously dumbfounding some of the arguments proposed are, seeing as they’re selectively excluding portions of the scientific method, or applications thereof, to make their case. Well, it turns out that I’m not the only one taking [...]