Muslim blogger, evolution and censorship

[skydivephil]

I'm writing abut a Muslim blogger Adam Deen. He posted an article attacking a fellow Muslim's article in the Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/sep/11/religion.darwinbicentenary
The article in the Guardian suggested Muslim should accept evolution and reject fundamentalism.
Adam Deen suggested there were many famous scientists such Stephen Jay Gould who cast doubt on evolution and the Qur'an was not compatible with human evolution.
His article here:
http://adamdeen.blogspot.com/2008/09/responding-to-usama-hasans-muslim-apes.html
He made it look like such scientists cast doubt on evolution, my video attempted to show the opposite is true and that the scientists were being quoted out of context. I showed all my sources including his blog and in the spirit of open debate and discourse he decided that shots of his blog were a breach of copyright and had my video pulled from you tube. This despitge the fact he is one of the main speakers used by the Muslim Debate Initiative, an orgination whos aims are stated are promoting
"Debate, dialogue and discourse" between belivers and skeptics alike.

I have reposted the video with the shots of Adam's blog removed.
If you are of the opinion critics should not silenced. Please watch the video below:

[youtube]nIWd85cMAyo[/youtube]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIWd85cMAyo
, maybe even share it around. Personally I think censorship should be discouraged. I hope you agree.

 

[evolved yet?]

Agreed, I hate censorship, it's not like he is losing any money or anything so I can't see what is wrong with it.

 

[skydivephil]

Thanks, if you can mention it in your blog, that would be great .

 

[A Thousand Suns]

Qur'an was not compatible with human evolution.

Would you be kind enough to show the verse from Quran which is incompatible with human evolution

 

[skydivephil]

This is not my interpretation but Adam Deen's. His original post was attacking a fellow Muslim who embraces evolution. If you check the video out, or the blog, linked to in the original post above, you will see.

 

[A Thousand Suns]

Well ,FYI ,there is no verse in Quran which supports or declines the human evolution----If a particular Muslim declines evolution its his personal thinking

 

[skydivephil]

Nevertheless this is not a small minortiy view in the Muslim World. As a Muslim I hope you can be more persuasive in perusading your fellow Muslims that evoluiton, including human evolution, is not something to be rejected. I would suspect that denying a key part of modern science is damging to ones faith. Have you been on Adam Deen's blog? Maybe a comment there would not go a miss.

 

[evolved yet?]

Thanks, if you can mention it in your blog, that would be great .

Sure thing.

 

[9-10ths_Penguin]

Adam Deen suggested there were many famous scientists such Stephen Jay Gould who cast doubt on evolution and the Qur'an was not compatible with human evolution.

If he thinks that Stephen Jay Gold "casts doubt on evolution", then he hasn't read Stephen Jay Gould.

 

[RedOne77]

Nevertheless this is not a small minortiy view in the Muslim World. As a Muslim I hope you can be more persuasive in perusading your fellow Muslims that evoluiton, including human evolution, is not something to be rejected. I would suspect that denying a key part of modern science is damging to ones faith. Have you been on Adam Deen's blog? Maybe a comment there would not go a miss.

Judging by my own experiences dealing with other Christians, having the same faith doesn't go very far. Instead of focusing on the evidence for (and against?) evolution, they want to drag the conversation over to 'how can you believe in evolution and claim to be of the same faith? You're worse than an atheist, you need to repent or you're going straight to Hell...'

Any attempt to show that you can accept evolution and the faith does little; 'it ain't part of my literal interpretation'. From what I've gathered about Islamic creationists the odds aren't much better.