{"id":47,"date":"2009-11-18T15:11:40","date_gmt":"2009-11-18T23:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/wordpress\/?p=3358"},"modified":"2009-11-18T15:11:40","modified_gmt":"2009-11-18T23:11:40","slug":"creationism-in-the-muslim-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2009\/11\/18\/creationism-in-the-muslim-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Creationism in the Muslim world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gnxp\/2009\/11\/evolution_the_muslim_world_rel.php\">ScienceBlogs I have a post<\/a> on Muslim Creationism data up. The paper, <a href=\"http:\/\/dr.ntu.edu.sg\/handle\/10220\/4478\">On being religious : patterns of religious commitment in muslim societies<\/a>, has lots of information. You can download it at the link. Here are the topline results for evolution:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/islamevol.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/islamevol.png\" alt=\"islamevol\" title=\"islamevol\" width=\"600\" height=\"223\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3360\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It isn&#8217;t a representative sample:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/muzevol2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/muzevol2.png\" alt=\"muzevol2\" title=\"muzevol2\" width=\"600\" height=\"258\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3359\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>About 45% of American Muslims exhibit some level of belief in evolution according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/wordpress\/religions.pewforum.org\/\">Religious Landscape Survey<\/a>. Also, the sample above only includes self-identified Muslims (so the non-Muslim minorities in Malaysia and Kazakhstan are not included).<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\" href=\"http:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share_save?linkurl=http%3A%2F%2Fsecularright.org%2Fwordpress%2F%3Fp%3D3358&amp;linkname=Creationism%20in%20the%20Muslim%20world\">Share\/Save<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A ScienceBlogs I have a post on Muslim Creationism data up. The paper, On being religious : patterns of religious commitment in muslim societies, has lots of information. You can download it at the link. Here are the topline results for evolution:<\/p>\n<p>It isn&#8217;t a representative sample:<\/p>\n<p>About 45% of American Muslims exhibit some level of belief [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,39,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creationism","category-data","category-islam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}