Editing Creationism (section)

===Islam===
{{Main|Islamic views on evolution|}}
{{See|Predestination in Islam}}
The creation myths in the Quran are more vague and allow for a wider range of interpretations similar to those in other Abrahamic religions.<ref name="nytimes.com"/>

Islam also has its own school of theistic evolutionism, which holds that mainstream scientific analysis of the origin of the universe is supported by the Quran. Some [[Muslims]] believe in evolutionary creation, especially among [[liberal movements within Islam]].<ref name="Huffpo"/>

Writing for ''[[The Boston Globe]]'', Drake Bennett noted: "Without a Book of Genesis to account for{{nbsp}}[...] Muslim creationists have little interest in proving that the age of the Earth is measured in the thousands rather than the billions of years, nor do they show much interest in the problem of the dinosaurs. And the idea that animals might evolve into other animals also tends to be less controversial, in part because there are passages of the Koran that seem to support it. But the issue of whether human beings are the product of evolution is just as fraught among Muslims."<ref name="Bennett 4">{{cite news |last=Bennett |first=Drake |date=October 25, 2009 |title=Islam's Darwin problem |url=http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2009/10/25/in_the_muslim_world_creationism_is_on_the_rise/?page=full |newspaper=[[The Boston Globe]] |location=Boston, MA |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091030044754/http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2009/10/25/in_the_muslim_world_creationism_is_on_the_rise/?page=full |archive-date=2009-10-30 |access-date=2014-03-21}}</ref> Khalid Anees, president of the [[Islamic Society of Britain]], states that Muslims do not agree that one species can develop from another.<ref name="PrizeforFossil">{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/3102103/Creationist-Adnan-Oktar-offers-trillion-pound-prize-for-fossil-proof-of-evolution.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/3102103/Creationist-Adnan-Oktar-offers-trillion-pound-prize-for-fossil-proof-of-evolution.html |archive-date=2022-01-12 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |last=Irvine |first=Chris |date=September 29, 2008 |title=Creationist Adnan Oktar offers trillion-pound prize for fossil proof of evolution |newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |location=London |access-date=2014-03-21}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref name=guardian0104>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=January 7, 2004 |url=http://education.guardian.co.uk/conferences/story/0,,1117752,00.html |title=Creationism: Science and Faith in Schools |newspaper=The Guardian |type=Conferences |location=London |access-date=2008-07-18}}</ref>

Ottoman-Lebanese Sunni scholar Hussein al-Jisr, declared that there is no contradiction between evolution and the Islamic scriptures. He stated that "there is no evidence in the Quran to suggest whether all species, each of which exists by the grace of God, were created all at once or gradually", and referred to the aforementioned story of creation in Sūrat al-Anbiyā.<ref>{{cite web |last=Adra |first=Jawad |title=Political inheritance-Absent entirely within the Shia'a community, dwindling within the Maronite and Sunni communities and omnipresent within the Druze |url=https://monthlymagazine.com/article-desc_1812_ |access-date=20 July 2020 |website=Monthly Magazine |archive-date=20 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200720052715/https://monthlymagazine.com/article-desc_1812_ |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Iqbāl |first=Muẓaffar |title=Science and Islam |date=2007 |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group |isbn=978-0-313-33576-1 |page=157}}</ref><ref>Majid, Abdul. "The Muslim responses to evolution." Science-Religion Dialogue (2002).</ref><ref>Varisco, Daniel. "Darwin and Dunya: Muslim Responses to Darwinian Evolution." Journal of International & Global Studies 9.2 (2018).</ref> In [[One-party period of the Republic of Turkey|Kemalist Turkey]], important scholars strove to accommodate the theory of evolution in Islamic scripture during the first decades of the Turkish Republic; their approach to the theory defended Islamic belief in the face of scientific theories of their times.<ref name="Vkaya">{{cite journal |last=Kaya |first=Veysel |date=April 2012 |title=Can the Quran Support Darwin? An Evolutionist Approach by Two Turkish Scholars after the Foundation of the Turkish Republic |journal=The Muslim World |volume=102 |issue=2 |page=357 |doi=10.1111/j.1478-1913.2011.01362.x}}</ref> 

The Saudi Arabian government, on the other hand, began funding and promoting denial of evolution in the 1970s in accordance to its [[Salafi movement|Salafi]]-[[Wahhabism|Wahhabi]] interpretation of Islam.<ref name="BurtonIRNKSA2">{{cite journal |last=Burton |first=Elise K. |date=May–June 2010 |title=Teaching Evolution in Muslim States:Iran and Saudi Arabia Compared |url=http://xa.yimg.com/kq/groups/19234639/1613108208/name/Iran%20and%20Saudi%20Arabia%20Compared.pdf |url-status=dead |journal=Reports of the National Center for Science Education |volume=30 |issue=3 |pages=25–29 |issn=2158-818X |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180219014741/http://xa.yimg.com/kq/groups/19234639/1613108208/name/Iran%20and%20Saudi%20Arabia%20Compared.pdf |archive-date=2018-02-19 |access-date=2014-01-13}}</ref> This stance garnered criticism from the governments and academics of mainline Muslim countries such as Turkey,<ref>{{Cite web |date=1 March 2017 |title=Turkish academics tell ministry that evolution theory excluded from curriculum 'only in Saudi Arabia' |url=http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/turkish-academics-tell-ministry-that-evolution-theory-excluded-from-curriculum-only-in-saudi-arabia.aspx?PageID=238&NID=110307&NewsCatID=341 |access-date=24 April 2017 |website=Hürriyet Daily News}}</ref> Pakistan,<ref>{{cite web |author=IAP Member Academies |date=June 21, 2006 |title=IAP Statement on the Teaching of Evolution |url=http://www.interacademies.net/10878/13901.aspx |access-date=2014-06-20 |website=[[InterAcademy Panel|IAP]] |publisher=[[TWAS|The World Academy of Sciences]] |location=Trieste, Italy |archive-date=2011-07-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110717190031/http://www.interacademies.net/10878/13901.aspx |url-status=dead }}</ref> Lebanon,<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Vlaardingerbroek |first1=Barend |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=grp_CgAAQBAJ&pg=PA161 |title=The Status of Evolutionary Theory in Undergraduate Biology |last2=Hachem-el-Masri |first2=Yasmine |date=23 October 2006 |journal=International Journal of Educational Reform |volume=15 |number=2 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |isbn=9781475816457 |pages=161–162|doi=10.1177/105678790601500202 }}</ref> and Iran,<ref name="BurtonIRNKSA2" /> where evolution was initially taught and promoted. Since the 1980s, Turkey has been a site of strong advocacy for creationism, supported by American adherents.<ref name="NCSE Edis">{{cite journal |last=Edis |first=Taner |date=November–December 1999 |title=Cloning Creationism in Turkey |url=http://ncse.com/rncse/19/6/cloning-creationism-turkey |journal=Reports of the National Center for Science Education |volume=19 |issue=6 |pages=30–35 |issn=2158-818X |access-date=2008-02-17}}</ref><ref name=WaPo2009>{{cite news |last=Kaufman |first=Marc |date=November 8, 2009 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/07/AR2009110702233.html |title=In Turkey, fertile ground for creationism |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |location=Washington, D.C. |access-date=2014-03-21}}</ref>