A question about the flood myth, baraminology, and Pangaea

[Minimalist]

Why should any bible-thumping shithead worry about facts when they can just invoke their magic sky-daddy to solve all the problems?

And we have the balls to think of the muslims as backward.

[Chas]

It would not be an altitude of 29,000 feet - it would be sea level.

Welcome to my world Chas, glad to see that Drich is not the only one who does not get irony.

Your irony was not at all apparent. People actually make this error in thinking.

[TheRocketSurgeon]

Why should any bible-thumping shithead worry about facts when they can just invoke their magic sky-daddy to solve all the problems?

And we have the balls to think of the muslims as backward.

They're working on it.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/03/scienc....html?_r=0

[Cyberman]

Looks like the cretinist message hasn't percolated through just yet:

The degree of acceptance of evolution varies among Islamic countries.

Research led by the Evolution Education Research Center at McGill University, in Montreal, found that high school biology textbooks in Pakistan covered the theory of evolution. Quotations from the Koran at the beginning of the chapters are chosen to suggest that the religion and the theory coexist harmoniously.

In a survey of 2,527 Pakistani high school students conducted by the McGill researchers and their international collaborators, 28 percent of the students agreed with the creationist sentiment, “Evolution is not a well-accepted scientific fact.” More than 60 percent disagreed, and the rest were not sure.

Eighty-six percent agreed with this statement: “Millions of fossils show that life has existed for billions of years and changed over time.”

Wonder how long it will be before that changes?

[Old Baby]

Looks like the cretinist message hasn't percolated through just yet:

The degree of acceptance of evolution varies among Islamic countries.

Research led by the Evolution Education Research Center at McGill University, in Montreal, found that high school biology textbooks in Pakistan covered the theory of evolution. Quotations from the Koran at the beginning of the chapters are chosen to suggest that the religion and the theory coexist harmoniously.

In a survey of 2,527 Pakistani high school students conducted by the McGill researchers and their international collaborators, 28 percent of the students agreed with the creationist sentiment, “Evolution is not a well-accepted scientific fact.” More than 60 percent disagreed, and the rest were not sure.

Eighty-six percent agreed with this statement: “Millions of fossils show that life has existed for billions of years and changed over time.”

Wonder how long it will be before that changes?

Has Drich been to Pakistan?

[Cyberman]

Pakistan isn't mentioned in the bible, so he probably doesn’t believe it exists.

[drfuzzy]

Looks like the cretinist message hasn't percolated through just yet:


Wonder how long it will be before that changes? 

Has Drich been to Pakistan?

Old Baby!  You made me spit Dr. Pepper on my desk!  

[FebruaryOfReason]

[Expired]

Welcome to my world Chas, glad to see that Drich is not the only one who does not get irony.

Your irony was not at all apparent.  People actually make this error in thinking.

See my later post, theists don't have a monopoly on talking nonsense.

[TheRocketSurgeon]

Looks like the cretinist message hasn't percolated through just yet:

The degree of acceptance of evolution varies among Islamic countries.

Research led by the Evolution Education Research Center at McGill University, in Montreal, found that high school biology textbooks in Pakistan covered the theory of evolution. Quotations from the Koran at the beginning of the chapters are chosen to suggest that the religion and the theory coexist harmoniously.

In a survey of 2,527 Pakistani high school students conducted by the McGill researchers and their international collaborators, 28 percent of the students agreed with the creationist sentiment, “Evolution is not a well-accepted scientific fact.” More than 60 percent disagreed, and the rest were not sure.

Eighty-six percent agreed with this statement: “Millions of fossils show that life has existed for billions of years and changed over time.”

Wonder how long it will be before that changes?

That's the point of the article. It is changing. The whole article is about the rise of creationism among Muslims in the past couple of decades, even in places that were ostensibly secular, like Turkey following the election of its own Republican religious fanatics.