If we are all descended from Noah ...

Hey sword, are you expecting to drag Muslims into your debate or something?First, I must say that the Qur'an only gave a vague account of creation. But the clear message is that Allah had sent signs for humans to contemplate, and we are free to interpret it anyway we like; some of us accept evolution, and some don't. I fall into the first group. Science is a powerful tool to read the signs of nature and it discovered evolution. So I guess my God showed me the way He created us--through evolution. There are some Muslims here and I think they have no problem with evolution (Fedmahn for example) or have slight problems with natural selection (Syamsu).As for the depravity and lack of liberty & everything... funny, blaming Islam for the condition of Muslims, although we suspect that it is the USA who's responsible. America backed up the regimes of Saddam Hussein (in Iran/Iraq), Taliban (in Afghanistan/Soviet), etc. and later disposing them when the puppets were no longer needed. Who is it that's messing around with the world?

'f course. Just as long as you don't act like some others which is hostile to any religion. I am okay with atheists and agnostics as long as they don't overstep the religion magisteria.Strangely, this is the virtue of being a minority; minorities tend to be more tolerant. If Muslims are the majority, sometimes there will spring up some fundamnetalist [not typo] leaders urging the masses to make a theocracy of the country. We have many of those here; I am sure that a theocracy is only good to the majority; the minority would suffer.