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    It is not the case that Most Muslims refuse to accept that humans evolved from hominin ancestors

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    • 1.Empirical surveys such as Hamid (2014) and Pew Research data show significant Muslim acceptance of evolution, particularly among educated populations in Western countries.
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    • 2.The claim conflates a particular traditionalist interpretive stance with the beliefs of a globally diverse 1.8 billion-person community spanning vastly different educational and cultural contexts.
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    • 1.Prominent Muslim scholars including Nidhal Guessoum and Usaama al-Azami have argued that Qurʾānic accounts of Adam are compatible with evolutionary descent through allegorical or non-literalist hermeneutics.
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    • 2.The existence of a well-developed tradition of Islamic evolutionary theology demonstrates that acceptance of human evolution is not theologically foreclosed within Islam itself.
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    • The Qurʾān explicitly mentions the special creation of Adam out of clay
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