A Turkish Muslim author’s book, The Atlas of Creation, sent to French schools, in sort of a mass mailing campaign prompted an outcry from WoodMoor Village Zendo in an article titled Turkish Creationist Book.

I agree with the repugnance of religious cosmogony as a substitute for science. I also think this issue is not easily brushed aside as yet another example of ignorant, arrogant “fundamentalists.”

The larger dynamic in society as a whole is a search for ethical values in a world bent on destroying the foundations they have traditionally been built on. It is not science, per se, that is the culprit, but a groundswell of awareness that the older mythologies just don’t cut it very well in the modern world. If you are sick, would you take a pill or go to a scientific doctor, or to a a minister in hopes that the evil spirits causing your cold could be dispelled? No answer is necessary. Prayer as a medical device has been relegated even by religionists to the narrow niche of the final resort when everything else has failed.

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