Bernard Lewis discussed the Muslim world's rejection of knowledge from non-Islamic scholars as a source of the Muslim world's fall from a center of learning to it's current medieval status. Why did they reject such scholarship? Because cultures' that do not follow the prophet Muhammad are generating 'knowledge' without the enlightenment of Islam. Such culture's (ours ) are therefore simply backward and thinking wrong.
We are ready to join them now:
A comparison of peoples' views in 34 countries finds that the United States ranks near the bottom when it comes to public acceptance of evolution. Only Turkey ranked lower.
Among the factors contributing to America's low score are poor understanding of biology, especially genetics, the politicization of science and the literal interpretation of the Bible by a small but vocal group of American Christians, the researchers say.
"American Protestantism is more fundamentalist than anybody except perhaps the Islamic fundamentalist, which is why Turkey and we are so close," said study co-author Jon Miller of Michigan State University.
Put down your Left Behind book now, put on your thinking cap back on and read the rest here
*apologies to NPR and Talk Of The Nation
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