Brussels: 83% of Muslim students believe in creationism
Update: Thanks to a commentator below - I fixed the headline.
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Almost a quarter (23.5%) of students in secondary, higher and university education in Brussels believes that man is God's creation.
The number of creationists is strikingly higher by young Muslims. Among them, 82.8% opted for this answer in a multiple-choice question. Among Catholic youth, 20% thought, 'evolution was not completely convincing."
This according to a study by a research at ULB from several years ago.
According to Hervé Hasquin, former rector of ULB, for the past few years there's been a decline in scientific knowledge regarding the creation of man, and the number of youth who believe in godly creation "particularly in Brussels and alarmingly among students in higher education," is increasing.
Hasquin explains it by the growth of the Muslim population, which traditionally shirks from Darwin. But he also points to the growing presence of protestant churches of the Evangelical sort.
Hasquin says that the problematic point is that some of those youth would later be teachers themselves. And therefore in the future we might have to deal with teachers who aren't capable of teaching science.
Source: HLN (Dutch)
Update: Thanks to a commentator below - I fixed the headline.
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Almost a quarter (23.5%) of students in secondary, higher and university education in Brussels believes that man is God's creation.
The number of creationists is strikingly higher by young Muslims. Among them, 82.8% opted for this answer in a multiple-choice question. Among Catholic youth, 20% thought, 'evolution was not completely convincing."
This according to a study by a research at ULB from several years ago.
According to Hervé Hasquin, former rector of ULB, for the past few years there's been a decline in scientific knowledge regarding the creation of man, and the number of youth who believe in godly creation "particularly in Brussels and alarmingly among students in higher education," is increasing.
Hasquin explains it by the growth of the Muslim population, which traditionally shirks from Darwin. But he also points to the growing presence of protestant churches of the Evangelical sort.
Hasquin says that the problematic point is that some of those youth would later be teachers themselves. And therefore in the future we might have to deal with teachers who aren't capable of teaching science.
Source: HLN (Dutch)
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