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Muslim students in Britain boycotting lectures
on evolution
Sunday November 27, 2011 10:50:38 PM,
IANS
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London: A growing
number of Muslim students at a leading British university are
avoiding lectures on evolution, saying it is contrary to the
creationist ideas stated in the Quran.
Professors at the University College London, a leading
multidisciplinary university, have expressed concern over the
rising number of biology students boycotting lectures on Darwinist
theories, which forms an important part of the syllabus, citing
their religion, the Daily Mail reported.
These students include three trainee doctors in one of Britain's
leading medical courses.
Muslim opponents to Darwinism maintain that Allah created the
world, mankind and all known species in a single act.
According to Darwin's theory of the survival of the fittest, every
organism on earth is involved in a struggle for survival and some
individuals of a species are better adapted than other individuals
to their environment.
The individuals that are better adapted to their environment are
most likely to survive and have a chance to reproduce, thereby
passing on their useful adaptations to the next generation. Those
who are less well adapted do not survive long enough to breed.
These ideas formed the basis of Darwin's theory of evolution by
natural selection.
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