Islam requires throwing out human evolution. It's OK for Muslims to accept evolution for other creatures but definitely not for human apes. Muslims who grow up and accept 21st century science almost always throw out Islam, while of course keeping quiet about it to avoid being executed.
For some Christian cults it's different. They can accept human evolution but always they stick their magical god fairy into it. Christians can't accept a scientific fact without polluting it with magic.
The existence of religions completely depends on this fantasy: People are special and not just apes who descended from ancient apes. The idea is we are so special we get to magically fly to a magical paradise after we drop dead. It's this cowardly disgusting fantasy that makes religion possible. And this is why evolution is the greatest possible threat to religion, because evolution shows that there's nothing special about us. We are just one small insignificant twig on the vast tree of life.
"Darwin was the first to use data from nature to convince people that evolution is true, and his idea of natural selection was truly novel. It testifies to his genius that the concept of natural theology, accepted by most educated Westerners before 1859, was vanquished within only a few years by a single five-hundred-page book. On the Origin of Species turned the mysteries of life's diversity from mythology into genuine science." -- Jerry Coyne
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