Islam and Judaism have as important theological points that there deity is the creator, but the method of creation isn’t as important, and one sees less objection to evolution in those religions.
I don’t think this is actually true of Islam. Muslims in America rank behind mainline protestants in terms of acceptance of evolution, and as far as I’ve been able to determine, majority Islamic countries tend to fall behind even the US in terms of acceptance of evolution.
Yes, that’s a good point. In the rank-and-file there’s a lot lower acceptance of evolution in Islam. This undermines my point somewhat. I suppose one could point out the general lack of acceptance of science and more reactionary settings of a lot of Islam, or point out that anti-evolution sentiment is less major among prominent Muslim scholars and the like, but that’s a much weaker argument, and wouldn’t change the fact that my statement as stated is empirically false.
I don’t think this is actually true of Islam. Muslims in America rank behind mainline protestants in terms of acceptance of evolution, and as far as I’ve been able to determine, majority Islamic countries tend to fall behind even the US in terms of acceptance of evolution.
Yes, that’s a good point. In the rank-and-file there’s a lot lower acceptance of evolution in Islam. This undermines my point somewhat. I suppose one could point out the general lack of acceptance of science and more reactionary settings of a lot of Islam, or point out that anti-evolution sentiment is less major among prominent Muslim scholars and the like, but that’s a much weaker argument, and wouldn’t change the fact that my statement as stated is empirically false.