I find that funny too. Surely if you're going to set out to disprove a theory, the first step should be study what that theory actually is. I can never work out whether creationists are willfully dishonest or just plain thick.
Very true but the problem is people level the same argument at atheists.
People say to Richard Dawkins, how can you dismiss religion when you haven't read all of it's holy texts from the OT to the Koran and Hadith. How can you dismiss religion when you haven't read all of the great works by theologians written over the centuries?
This is Dawkins reply.
Would you need to read learned volumes on Leprechology before disbelieving in leprechauns?
Great answer
The problem is if your world view is that of a Muslim, you get your truth from the Koran which is without one shadow of a doubt, the perfect word of the creator of the universe.
If that is your world view and you have your family, community and a billion others who fervently agree then evolution is quite obviously a foolish endeavor that can be dismissed without study.
It just doesn't fit with the evidence as laid out in the Koran. Why read lots of clunky scientific papers when they are quite clearly wrong because they contradict the Koran.
Anyway even if Richard Dawkins read all of the "holy" books he could still be told he doesn't know enough. You can't just read and make up your own mind you must also read all of the commentary and interpretation that surrounds the "holy" scriptures and perhaps consult a cleric to seek his guidance.
If you have immersed yourself in these holy books and refrained from passing judgment on them as you painstakingly go over all the different interpretations, always with an open mind, maybe then you would be able to pass judgment on them. As long as it's favourable
Lets face it if you are the kind of person who is going to spend ten years with an open mind pouring over these tedious ignorant texts and all of the relating text as you seek guidance and respectfully listen to religious "experts" as they babble on about their god you are probably not a skeptic but a religious person searching for your path.
The criteria needed to be a critic of monotheism is that you must be a believer or on the road to belief, skeptics are disqualified because as you all know you must read these books with an "Open Heart" skepticism is cold, calculating and negative. You must read the Koran with reverence to see the light.
The same is true for faith and belief, how can you objectively look at the evidence if it challenges your belief. Either the evidence has to be ignored or the belief has to go. Then you cease to be a believer so the scientific method is a closed shop when it comes to monotheists.
Yes it's true there are plenty of educated religious people who accept the theory of evolution/the scientific method and still remain religious but their stance is indefensible, hypocritical and wrong.
Either god created the earth and every creature on it as it is now, in six days, six thousand years ago or the evidence of carbon dating and evolution are true.
If the evidence trumps the theology on it's foundational claims then the rest is laid bare as the bullshit it is. Clinging on to the virgin birth or Mohammad splitting the moon when Genesis has been so thoroughly debunked is just desperation.
If the story of creation in the Bible and the Koran is bollox then the rest collapses. This especially applies to Islam because the Koran is not the inspired word but THE PERFECT WORD.
If the Korans perfection is destroyed in the eyes of the believer then the whole house of cards falls. That's why these people don't study evolution before they open their mouths.
Topic: Atheists according to Deen-ul-Islam