Jewish Journal   February 13, 2009  Understanding Islamic
creationism    A friend at Religion News Service recently
interviewed Salman Hameed, an assistant professor at Hampshire
College who writes the Science and Religion News blog. The focus
of their conversation was Islamic creationism, which I’ve
discussed before. Here’s an excerpt:  Q: How does Islamic
creationism differ from the traditional Christian views on the
issue?  A: Young-earth creationism—the notion that the earth is
6,000 years old—is completely missing in the Muslim world. The
Quran is ambiguous—it deals with a six-day creationism, but at
one place it said the length of a day may be 10,000 years, at
another point it says the length of each day may be 50,000 days.
So, Muslims had accepted the scientific answer to the age of the
earth, which is in billions of years. There was no conflict with
scientists.  Q: Does this difference reflect that the Quran was
revealed 2,000 years after Genesis, when people had more
scientific knowledge about the wo