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And I can actually provide verbatim evidence that you are wrong. Here is a famous interaction between a well known journalist and the Taliban on the subject.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/26/ma...anted=all&_r=0
Over the next three weeks, Hoover and Rahmatullah traveled around Taliban-controlled Afghanistan and formed a deep friendship. One night, a week or so into the trip, Hoover was sitting on the floor of the foreign office guest house in Kandahar, drinking tea as Rahmatullah and some other Taliban peeled potatoes and onions. Rahmatullah asked him a question.
"Do you believe people are related to dogs?"
Dogs are not favored in Afghan society; the question dared him to contradict common sense.
"Yes," Hoover said.
The Taliban all laughed in amazement.
"How can you possibly believe that? We are so different."
"You see only differences. I see similarities."
"Similarities! Like what?"
Hoover wanted his first example to be an intellectual bunker buster, so he thought carefully.
"Bilateral symmetry," he said. The laughter stopped, which pleased him.
"What does that mean?"
"It means dogs have eyes on either side of their nose, just like humans. Dogs have two nostrils, just like humans. They have two lungs. They have toenails. They have a heart in the center of their chest. Dog blood and human blood are indistinguishable."
Recalling the exchange not long ago, Hoover said: "Now you could hear a pin drop — and it was a dirt floor. They were starting to get uneasy. There was a dog right outside. It was scraggly and covered with sores; I think the appropriate word for it would be 'cur.' When I finished laying out how they might be genetically related to the cur outside, they went off and started talking among themselves very intently. What they were discussing and what they wanted to understand was if what I was saying was true, would it fit within the teachings of the Koran. After a long time they came to the conclusion that it would."
"Do you believe people are related to dogs?"
Dogs are not favored in Afghan society; the question dared him to contradict common sense.
"Yes," Hoover said.
The Taliban all laughed in amazement.
"How can you possibly believe that? We are so different."
"You see only differences. I see similarities."
"Similarities! Like what?"
Hoover wanted his first example to be an intellectual bunker buster, so he thought carefully.
"Bilateral symmetry," he said. The laughter stopped, which pleased him.
"What does that mean?"
"It means dogs have eyes on either side of their nose, just like humans. Dogs have two nostrils, just like humans. They have two lungs. They have toenails. They have a heart in the center of their chest. Dog blood and human blood are indistinguishable."
Recalling the exchange not long ago, Hoover said: "Now you could hear a pin drop — and it was a dirt floor. They were starting to get uneasy. There was a dog right outside. It was scraggly and covered with sores; I think the appropriate word for it would be 'cur.' When I finished laying out how they might be genetically related to the cur outside, they went off and started talking among themselves very intently. What they were discussing and what they wanted to understand was if what I was saying was true, would it fit within the teachings of the Koran. After a long time they came to the conclusion that it would."
By New York Times Reporter Chip Brown discussing Mike Hoover's back and forth on evolution with Hashmat Rahmutullah and the other Talibs. No one pulled a pistol or a weapon or hurt Mr. Hoover.
Just like any part of the world, Africa, America, etc the Muslim world is complex and you will see varied reactions as opposed to what you are alleging with 99% of people will react one way.
Amongst Christians you have Pat Robertson who say Evolution is a conspiracy and you have NIH's Francis Collins who view as the mechanism of creation.
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