ISEN-ASTC-L is a service of the Association of Science-Technology Centers
Incorporated, a worldwide network of science museums and related institutions.
*****************************************************************************

welcome to the post-modern global village ...

see also last week's issue of Science for the news item 'Is Holland  
Becoming the Kansas of Europe?' (3 June 2005. p 1394)

but why do you write 'Salman Rushdie, of all people'?

-Kevin


On Jun 6, 2005, at 10:28 AM, Nik Charov wrote:

> ISEN-ASTC-L is a service of the Association of Science-Technology  
> Centers
> Incorporated, a worldwide network of science museums and related  
> institutions.
> *********************************************************************** 
> ******
>
> Salman Rushdie, of all people, weighs in on evolution and atheism in  
> this
> short piece from a few weeks ago:
> http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/ 
> Layout/Artic
> le_Type1&call_pageid=971358637177&c=Article&cid=1116770647079&DPL=IvsND 
> S/7Ch
> AX&tacodalogin=yes
> <http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/ 
> Layout/Arti
> cle_Type1&call_pageid=971358637177&c=Article&cid=1116770647079&DPL=IvsN 
> DS/7C
> hAX&tacodalogin=yes>
>
> A defense of atheism, OK-whatever-fine.
> But what raised my eyebrows was the line “Muslim voices the world over  
> are
> claiming that evolutionary theory is incompatible with Islam.”
>
> Is this true?  I’d never heard that before.  Is this evolution  
> “controversy”
> going to be an eventual problem for European science centers as well  
> (to say
> nothing of Middle Eastern and Indonesian centers), who presumably  
> serve a
> larger Muslim population than North American members of the ASTC  
> Nation?
> Did the number of opponents of evolution just increase by a billion?   
> This,
> from the religion that, at its best, brought us astronomy, al-chemy,  
> and
> hundreds of years of mathematical progress?
>
> I am somewhat distressed by this news.
> N
> Nik Charov
> Development Associate
> New York Hall of Science
> E: [log in to unmask]

***********************************************************************
More information about the Informal Science Education Network and the
Association of Science-Technology Centers may be found at http://www.astc.org.
To remove your e-mail address from the ISEN-ASTC-L list, send the
message  SIGNOFF ISEN-ASTC-L in the BODY of a message to
[log in to unmask]