We thank gentle reader Scott for alerting us to an article in the Gray Lady about the appearance in France of a lavishly illustrated book about paleontology thoroughly anti-Darwinist in outlook and written by a Muslim.
N.B. that the book, per the always objective and reliable NY Times, suffers from the same problem as a certain institution near the I-275 beltway: impressive modes of presentation that cover for lack of fundamental scientific reasoning. As the book is being sent to schools in France for free, the author apparently has a gift for fundraising not unlike that of the entrepreneurial soul who leads the organization aforementioned.
The Islamic author of this text appears to be unhindered by a need to ascribe a young age to the earth. He just doesn't buy into the notion that species might change and so evolve, apparently.
We find it ironic that in another age, an Islamic scholar articulated what one expert regards as the soundest formulation of the cosmological argument. So we urge gentle readers to realize that the sphere philosophy goes beyond the limits of science to address the questions that we really care about. And we ask again that the debate about such matters in the United States return to a proper notion that the dispute is interdisciplinary and not purely scientific.
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