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Bluelighter
Well there are as many Roman Catholics as there are Muslims in the world, and the Catholic church has issued statement after statement saying that they find evolution to be true. I think it is a rather Western phenomenon to say you are Christian and not really be Christian, I wouldn't say that Muslims are necessarily more pious for any other reason than the fact their religion demands it of them. I mean, Christianity does not dictate a strict dress code, it doesn't advocate calling your child Jesus, it doesn't dictate every tiny facet of your life right down to how to wipe your arse. So on a fundamental level it will always be the case that the average Muslim will seem far stricter than the average Christian. Either way, worldwide, I don't think there are that many people who identify as Christian who don't go to some length to adhere to their faith. Acceptance of evolution in 'moderate' Islamically dominated countries like Turkey runs at 22%, whereas in Saudi Arabia they aren't allowed to teach evolution any where.
This article goes into it a little bit:
http://old.richarddawkins.net/articles/706
No-one pays attention to what the Catholic church say though. They're that used to going "aye, aye don't wear condoms? Good one, get to fuck" that they probably dismissed that as well "Evolution is real? Pull the other one buddy, next you'll be shouting you don't fuck kids".
I think it still stands that it's an education thing though. In Turkey 22% believe in evolution, the other 78% have probably been taught from an early age that religion is 100% fact & religion says no to evolution. Obviously it is the religion stifling the education though, I think what you've said about the Muslim faith basically being much stricter than Christianity would go some way to explaining why Muslims would be less educated on evolution than Christians - There's probably some countries where they stone you to death for daring to claim that you're descended from primates.
On a fairly unrelated note, I just saw this on Twitter - "Rush Limbaugh blamed Obama for the Tampa hurricane. You do what you want, but I'll def vote for THE GUY WHO CAN CONTROL THE FUCKING WEATHER."



