{"id":41185,"date":"2011-05-31T21:17:30","date_gmt":"2011-06-01T05:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=12128"},"modified":"2011-05-31T21:17:30","modified_gmt":"2011-06-01T05:17:30","slug":"amongst-the-believers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2011\/05\/31\/amongst-the-believers\/","title":{"rendered":"Amongst the believers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t post Creationist related stuff often, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcrunch.com\/france-muslim-offensive-against-evolution\/3205\">Harun Yahya always brings out the funny<\/a> in people. So check this out, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcrunch.com\/france-muslim-offensive-against-evolution\/3205\">In France, a Muslim offensive against evolution<\/a>. First, some standard dullness:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Dressed in a traditional black robe decorated with rhinestones and a white veil that she wears \u201conly\u201d when she comes to the mosque, Maroua admits that she has always wondered about \u201cthe dinosaurs and the origin of man\u2026but at school, it cannot be refuted: we\u2019re taught that man descended from monkeys. At home and in the Koran, [we\u2019re taught] that we descended from Adam and Eve, and that God created all living beings.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ali Sadun Engin, Yahya\u2019s representative in the current tour of French mosques, seems to have convinced the young girl. \u201cI find his explanations logical,\u201d she says. The proof for creationism is demonstrated with some perfunctory presentations of fossils, including bear, crocodile, and tortoise skulls, and can be summarized in a few brief sentences: \u201cIf fish left the water to walk, if dinosaurs were transformed into birds, then we should discover fossils of these beings in transition. However this is not the case. Science thus shows one sole truth: creation as we know it from the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t post Creationist related stuff often, but Harun Yahya always brings out the funny in people. So check this out, In France, a Muslim offensive against evolution. First, some standard dullness:<br \/>\nDressed in a traditional black robe decorated &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creationism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41185"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41794,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41185\/revisions\/41794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}