Comments on: Saudi Cleric: Drop Evolution from the Curriculum https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/10/02/saudi-cleric-drop-evolution-fr/ Sat, 10 Oct 2009 16:36:25 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: Anonymous https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/10/02/saudi-cleric-drop-evolution-fr/#comment-547391 Sat, 10 Oct 2009 16:36:25 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/10/02/saudi-cleric-drop-evolution-fr/#comment-547391 Greg, this is important!

http://blogs.reuters.com/faithworld/2009/10/05/king-abdullah-slaps-down-saudi-cleric-criticial-of-co-ed-university/

]]> By: Erp https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/10/02/saudi-cleric-drop-evolution-fr/#comment-547390 Fri, 02 Oct 2009 20:07:05 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/10/02/saudi-cleric-drop-evolution-fr/#comment-547390 By US law Charles Darwin is an alien since he was not a US citizen.

I doubt complaining about evolution is going to go anywhere (barring a change at the top of the Saudi government). The Saudi government is intent on making this a modern university (and a rich one with 10 billion dollars in the endowment). Women are allowed to drive on campus, three members of the board of trustees are women, women do not need to wear hijab (I’m not sure this just means non-Muslim women).

]]> By: Pierce R. Butler https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/10/02/saudi-cleric-drop-evolution-fr/#comment-547389 Fri, 02 Oct 2009 20:06:28 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/10/02/saudi-cleric-drop-evolution-fr/#comment-547389 “The recommendation is to set up sharia committees at this university to oversee these studies and look into what violates the sharia (Islamic law),”…

Great idea! Let’s have a complete catalog from impeccable high-level imams that lays out point-by-point every divergence between Islamic orthodoxy and mainstream science.

At the least, this would save a lot of work for Ibn Warraq.

]]> By: llewelly https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/10/02/saudi-cleric-drop-evolution-fr/#comment-547388 Fri, 02 Oct 2009 18:39:11 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/10/02/saudi-cleric-drop-evolution-fr/#comment-547388

Evolution was invented by aliens?

Have you never noticed no-one ever mentions Charles Darwin’s middle name? Or even his initial?

That’s because he was born Charles Reptoid Darwin!.

]]> By: Anonymous https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/10/02/saudi-cleric-drop-evolution-fr/#comment-547387 Fri, 02 Oct 2009 15:18:25 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/10/02/saudi-cleric-drop-evolution-fr/#comment-547387 Jason Thibeault #3:
If you’d try translating The Greatest Show On Earth into Arabic and mass market that in Saudi Arabia you’d get slammed down long before you’d be able to say “random mutation and natural selection”.

That’s why we can’t have nice things.

]]> By: Jason Thibeault https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/10/02/saudi-cleric-drop-evolution-fr/#comment-547386 Fri, 02 Oct 2009 14:44:59 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/10/02/saudi-cleric-drop-evolution-fr/#comment-547386 The idea that evolution is an ideology at all is boggling. It’s not an ideology, dammit, it’s a unifying theory explaining all the evidence we have available to us!

]]> By: Virgil Samms https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/10/02/saudi-cleric-drop-evolution-fr/#comment-547385 Fri, 02 Oct 2009 14:39:01 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/10/02/saudi-cleric-drop-evolution-fr/#comment-547385 Evolution was invented by aliens?

]]> By: Gwenny https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/10/02/saudi-cleric-drop-evolution-fr/#comment-547384 Fri, 02 Oct 2009 14:26:55 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/10/02/saudi-cleric-drop-evolution-fr/#comment-547384 Hard to believe we have Islam to thank for saving so much ancient science and adding so much to some fields of thought a millennia or more ago.

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