Creationism with a Muslim face
In the United States, opposition to the teaching
of evolution in public schools has largely been fuelled by Protestant
fundamentalism.
In the United States, opposition to the teaching of evolution in public schools has largely been fuelled by the religious right, particularly Protestant fundamentalism.
Now another voice is entering the debate, in dramatic fashion. He is Adnan Oktar, from Turkey, who under the name Harun Yahya has produced numerous books. One of his books, Atlas Of Creation, is turning up unsolicited in the mailboxes of scientists and members of the US Congress, and at science museums around the country.
The lavishly illustrated 800-page book is one of the most significant creationist challenges to Charles 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, who, like colleagues there, found a copy in his mailbox, 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.”
Sadly - as there is for most of the dross printed and distributed as revealed knowledge - there will be True Believers waiting in line to join the march backwards to True Ignorance.
Posted: Mon - July 23, 2007 at 09:18 AM