Jonathan Zilberg
Honorary Curator. Komunitas Tikar Pandan
These days, science and religion are widely perceived to be at logger heads, that is, by the ill-informed and by fundamentalists of all sorts. For the religious right, at least for Christian fundamentalists, the battle lines are drawn between creationism and evolution. Herein, intelligent design has become a weapon for inserting creationism back into the science classroom - a guise for advancing a fundamentalist agenda in America and elsewhere. In contrast, in the Muslim world, intelligent design is currently either little known or of little consequence except as engaged by Harun Yahya and perhaps some other Islamic scholars of whom I am as of yet unaware. Fortunately Yahya helps us to see how very much in common all Abrahamic fundamentalists have, especially when it comes to their opposition to Darwinism.