More years ago than I now care to recall I was at university. Actually it was not long after the Iranian revolution, and we had at the university I went to (htt Reading University) a number of avid pro-revolutionary Iranians (no doubt the anti-revolutionaries would not get an exit visa). I was at first surprised when some of them were very interested in one end of the Christian Union bookstall. You see, that CU in the late 70's had a number of influential 6-day, young-earth creationists. Our Iranian acquaintances were interested in picking the Chrisian creationists' brains for arguments against evolution that could be used from a Qur'anic perspective. I'm not able to comment on how well the cross-over can be managed, but I am interested that it is clearly still and issue and likely to continue to be so.
Support for creationism is also widespread among Muslims, said Dr. Edis, whose book “An Illusion of Harmony: Science and Religion in Islam” was published by Prometheus Books this spring.“Taken at face value, the Koran is a creationist text,” he said, adding that it would be difficult to find a scholar of Islam “who is going to be gung-ho about Darwin.” Perhaps as a result, he said, Mr. Yahya’s books and other publications have won him attention in Islamic areas. “This is a guy with some influence,” Dr. Edis said, “unfortunately for mainstream science.”
Islamic Creationist and a Book Sent Round the World:
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