BBC News - Imam who believes in evolution retracts statements: "Dr Hasan wrote: 'Snazzy websites, videos and books produced by fundamentalist Muslim 'creationists' such as those at www.harunyahya.com, are obscuring clear scientific thinking.'
He also wrote: 'One problem is that many Muslims retain the simple picture that God created Adam from clay, much as a potter makes a statue, and then breathed into the lifeless statue and lo! it became a living human.
'This is a children's madrasa-level understanding and Muslims really have to move on as adults and intellectuals.' "
and so they did
