Forum:Was J K Rowling a creationist?

So, recently i read Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them and i came across this in the entry fro dragons: A spate of kangaroo killings in the late 1970s were attributed to a male Opaleye ousted from his homeland by a dominant female. Opaleye eggs are pale grey and may be mistaken for fossils by unwary Muggles. Also this http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/The_Evolution_of_Muggles_From_Mushrooms, so what do you guys think?, i am just not sure and i am really curious about it but haven't found much. &mdash; Unsigned, by: ‎ Manwhimperman / talk / contribs 01:36, 22 July 2015‎
 * The only relevant article I found was http://vq.vassar.edu/issues/2007/03/features/intelligent-design-is-dead.html. I doubt it. 01:21, 22 July 2015 (UTC)
 * hm, article doen't mention anything about rowling herslef, i think, it uses a harry potter analogy (the You-know-who thing) to explain Intelligent Design advocates' avoidance of the word God and use of "intelligent agent" instead.Manwhimperman (talk) 01:39, 22 July 2015 (UTC)
 * "Muggles are dumb and don't understand magic things" is what I got from that sentence, not "Rowling is a Creationist!""Paravant" Talk & Contribs 02:03, 22 July 2015 (UTC)
 * which sentence? one from the website or one from the quotation?Manwhimperman (talk) 03:41, 22 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Why the "was"? She's still alive, last I checked. 141.134.75.236 (talk) 02:26, 22 July 2015 (UTC)
 * hm, you are right "is" is the proper termManwhimperman (talk) 03:38, 22 July 2015 (UTC)


 * Well, Rowling has stated that she's Presbyterian Church of Scotland (not to be confused with the FREE Church of Scotland, which is entirely different), which is a fairly science-friendly church that expressed support of synthetic biology and has stated, via spokesperson, that "Creationism would be a minority position..." (a position corroborated by a BCSE survey which indicated that "Creationism appeared to be virtually absent from the mainstream denomination churches such as... the Church of Scotland"). This highly suggests that she's very likely NOT a creationist.
 * So there you have it. While it may be true in many cases, it's a mistake to automatically assume that the viewpoints of the characters or the logic of a world is a genuine reflection of the beliefs of the author. ℕoir LeSable (talk) 18:58, 22 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Indeed. Thor (or someone very much like him) appears in two or three Douglas Adams novels. That doesn't make Douglas Adams an Odinist. Bicycle  wheel silverbrain.png 21:20, 22 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Well then that settles it, thanks for the infromationManwhimperman (talk) 23:39, 22 July 2015 (UTC)
 * No probs, yo. ℕoir LeSable (talk) 17:21, 23 July 2015 (UTC)

Cool, everyone gets their panties inna bunch about Harry Potter, Creationists, Atheists, EVERYONE!!--Arisboch (talk) 21:25, 22 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Okay... 23:52, 22 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Sheesh, can't anyone just like—or dislike, in my case—someone's work without getting all worked up over unrelated personal beliefs? I find the series annoying because it uses every last fucking cliche imaginable, and because I don't relate to the pathetic teenage romance (when I was a teen I certainly had my thoughts, but I've come to the realization that it's not for me and can't really relate to what I was thinking then), but not because of the author's religious beliefs. She could be a Sikh for all I care, the words in the Harry Potter books still are what they are. The Blade of the Northern Lights (話して下さい ) 05:22, 26 July 2015 (UTC)
 * The personal creates the political. Thus, the personal should always be examined. --Castaigne (talk) 14:09, 29 July 2015 (UTC)
 * The personal doesn't always create the fictional though. I don't see anybody accusing whats his face that makes GoT to actually believe in anything in Westeros. For my world building I made an orthopraxic religion with an explicit creator god, Afterlife and eschatology, but that doesn't mean any of it reflects my own actual beliefs. --"Paravant" Talk & Contribs 16:19, 29 July 2015 (UTC)

If the contents of Rowling's books are an accurate indicator of her beliefs, then why not ask if she believes in magic or dragons or elves? Her books are obviously fiction, just because she incorporates mythological ideas from the real world doesn't mean she believes them.  Frederick ♠♣♥♦ 20:21, 10 August 2015 (UTC)