A Muslim fundamentalist with a good deal more money than sense – and a penchant for distinctly dodgy suits – is flooding schools and universities with an expensive tome entitled the Atlas of Creation.
The book, by Adnan Oktar of Turkey who writes under the name Harun Yahya, claims that creatures today are just like creatures that lived in the fossil past, so evolution must be impossible.
He says he seeks to unmask ‘the imposture of evolutionists’, and the links between their scientific views and modern evils like fascism, communism and terrorism. He also hopes to encourage readers ‘to open their minds and hearts and guide them to become more devoted servants of God.’
At 11 x 17 inches and 12 pounds, with a bright red cover and almost 800 glossy pages, most of them lavishly illustrated, Atlas of Creation is probably the largest and most beautiful creationist challenge yet to Darwin’s theory, which Yahya calls a feeble and perverted ideology contradicted by the Koran.
Kevin Padian, an evolutionary biologist at the University of California, Berkeley, found an unsolicited copy of the book in his mailbox.
He said people who had received copies were ‘just astounded at its size and production values and equally astonished at what a load of crap it is.’
See the full New York Times report here.
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July 15th, 2009 at 11:01 am
YOU CALL HARUN YAHYA CLOWN!!!
IS NOT FUNNY THAT DAWKINISTS ARE SOURCE OF WORLDS EVIL???
WE LAUGH WHEN OUR MARDY PROFIT HARUN YAHYA GET OUT OF JAIL AND DESTROY DAWKINIST RELIGION!!!
WAIT AND SEE DAWKINIST!!!
July 15th, 2009 at 1:06 pm
Don't SHOUT, you fucking moron!
July 18th, 2009 at 10:30 am
HA! HA! IRRITATE DAWKINIST WHEN CHALLENGED!!!!
DAWKINIST ARROGANT!!! DAWKIN THINK HE IS NEW PROFIT!!!
HARUN YAHYA IS REAL PROFIT!!!
HARUN YAHYA IS NEW MARDY!!!
HARUN YAHYA IS GREAT SCHOLAR!!!
HARUN YAHYA IS GREATEST SCIENTIST WHO EVER LIVED!!!!
YOU DAWKINIST SECULAR ATHEISTS PUT OUR PROFIT IN JAIL!!
WHEN HE GET OUT HE DESTROY ALL DAWKINIST AND PZ MYERS WORSHIPPERS!!!
WAIT AND SEE DAWKINIST!!!!
July 18th, 2009 at 3:22 pm
HA! HA! IRRITATE DAWKINIST WHEN CHALLENGED!!!!
DAWKINIST ARROGANT!!! DAWKIN THINK HE IS NEW PROFIT!!!
HARUN YAHYA IS REAL PROFIT!!!
HARUN YAHYA IS NEW MARDY!!!
HARUN YAHYA IS GREAT SCHOLAR!!!
HARUN YAHYA IS GREATEST SCIENTIST WHO EVER LIVED!!!!
YOU DAWKINIST SECULAR ATHEISTS PUT OUR PROFIT IN JAIL!!
WHEN HE GET OUT HE DESTROY ALL DAWKINIST AND PZ MYERS WORSHIPPERS!!!
WAIT AND SEE DAWKINIST!!!!
August 27th, 2009 at 9:45 am
These Islamic cretinists have to shout. Because they're like frustrated children.
June 19th, 2010 at 7:11 am
I also asthonished that the reply from darwinis regard to the atlas of creation is just somehing like this: Adna oktar was criminal, he wasnt’t have degree in biology, one of the photos showing fishing bait, the atlas is expensive and he give them freely so he must be get a lot of money from saudi or from crimes. Fuck! none of that matter, just read the book and debunk its content! I cannot find just one darwinis respond on the content of the book in intranet.
July 13th, 2010 at 10:40 am
Probokator, you are lazy. there is plenty of debunking Oktar’s creationist crap. Try googling “Youtube dawkins debunks Yahya”, or read Dawkins’ book The Greatest Show on Earth for a comprehensive rebuttal of Oktar’s ignorance.