Where are the Jewish and Muslim Creationists?
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But, Christians aren’t the only believers to affirm the Genesis narrative as sacred scripture or to believe that it tells the truth about the origins of the world. Genesis, after all, is not a fundamentally Christian text; it is a Jewish text written centuries before Christianity came into existence. It is part of the Jewish Torah, in a section called the Pentateuch, which Jews revere as their Bible. Muslims don’t revere the Hebrew or Christian Bibles as “sacred” in the way of the Quran; however, they do affirm the general creation story told in Genesis, namely, that God created the world, and created human beings as human beings – not as apes who evolved over time to be humans.
We have lots of Muslims and Jews in Texas. Why haven’t they joined the Christians in demanding that creationism be taught in public school science classes?