Christians religious leaders endorse evolution

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Christians religious leaders endorse evolution
OP - February 26, 2010, 10:27 AM

Many Christians religious leaders endorse evolution.

http://www.butler.edu/clergyproject/Christian_Clergy/ChrClergyLtr.htm

I am a student of quran and islam and not an exmuslim.
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Reply #1 - February 26, 2010, 12:09 PM

Already knew that - only the whacko evangelicals don't.
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Reply #2 - February 26, 2010, 01:12 PM

Any idea if muslims have done anything similar in muslim world?

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Reply #3 - February 26, 2010, 01:57 PM

I personally always accepted evolution - though I made the slight modification that God made Adam and Eve miraculously born from some evolved apes.

I knew many Muslims who also accepted evolution - to a certain extent.

But I have never heard any official acceptance of it.
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Reply #4 - February 26, 2010, 02:11 PM

Acceptance of evolution amongst Christians and Muslims is related to levels of literalism. The evangelical whacko Christians are literalists who have a very Quranic attitude to the Bible. Those Christians who treat the Bible less strictly, who accept it figuratively, who can take a metaphorical conception of its precepts, are able to create space for an acceptance of evolution because of this.

Whilst amongst Muslims, especially educated Muslims living in the West, this is also true, that they can accept evolution to a greater or lesser degree because they are able to conceive of Islam and the Quran in such a way to allow so (or convince themselves that it can be interpreted thus), it doesn't translate into mainstream or even higher echelon proponents, because Islam is (relatively) more mired in literalism, not only at the fringe, but at the centre, and in the mainstream.

As such, these tensions and differences are something of a microcosm of the tensions within Islam and between Muslims, of those who believe that Islam should be viewed figuratively and metaphorically, and the majority opinion, that Islam is literal, and the Quran the unadorned facts of dvine revelation and unchallengable truth.

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Reply #5 - February 26, 2010, 02:15 PM

Quote from: Hassan on February 26, 2010, 01:57 PM
God made Adam and Eve miraculously born from some evolved apes.

Sorry, that made me LOL hard
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Reply #6 - February 28, 2010, 11:41 PM

I like what Richard Harries, the Bishop of Oxford, said in an interview with Dawkins: "God didn't only make the world but he also made the world make itself".

I think Anglicans are cool and I would rather have the whole world being Anglican forever than what we have now.
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