if forest gump was here, he'd be saying

it doesn't matter if you're christian or muslim or anything in between or far off on the ends. stupid is as stupid does

the earth was NOT created in seven days. we have been here longer than a few thousand years. humans and dinos did NOT roam the earth together. you can make all the museum exhibits you want. you can quote all the verse you want. you can point your finger and shake your head. but, i don't give a flying fuck. YOU ARE WRONG.

believe in your god. i'm not questioning that. i know why you do. fear. i get that part. what i don't get is not believing in SCIENCE. REALITY. TRUTH.

In Turkey, fertile ground for creationism
U.S. critics of evolution help translate their ideas for a society already torn between Islam and secularism

By Marc Kaufman

Washington Post Staff Writer

ISTANBUL -- Sema Ergezen teaches biology to Turkish students interested in teaching science themselves, and she has long struggled with her students' ignorance of, and sometimes hostility to, the notion of evolution.

But she was taken aback when several of her Marmara University students recently accused her of being an atheist, or worse, for teaching anything but the doctrine that God created the Earth and everything on it.

"They said I was a liar if I called myself a Muslim because I also accepted evolution," she said.

What especially disturbed -- and amused -- the veteran professor was that the arguments for creationism presented by some of the students came directly from the country where she was educated in the biological sciences years before -- the United States. Translated and adapted for a Muslim society, the purported proofs that Darwinism and evolution were wrong came directly from American proponents of Christian creationism and its less overtly religious offshoot, intelligent design.

Ergezen's experience has become increasingly common. While creationism and intelligent design appear to be in some retreat in the United States, they have blossomed within Muslim Turkey. With direct and indirect help from American foes of evolution, similarly-minded Turks have aggressively made the case that Charles Darwin's theory is scientifically wrong and is the underlying source of most of the world's conflicts because it excludes God from human affairs..........

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