Allah's Atlas
Bloggers are all over the new Atlas of Creation, Islam's contribution to the anti-evolution cause. Also, how will Hillary Clinton's cleavage affect her campaign, and why do President Bush's weekend plans terrify liberals?
Allah's Atlas: Turkish Islamist Adnan Oktar, going by the name Harun Yahya, is peddling what is, by all accounts, a gorgeous book of antiscientific bunkum. Atlas of Creation is his 12-pound, 800-page reply to Darwinism that suggests evolution is a sham since, well, species alive today are very much like those alive millions of years ago. No one's quite sure where Yahya gets the money for these free textbooks, though at least one blogger has a theory.
Muslim Humanist Ali Eteraz writes of Harun Yahya that he "has been stalking Muslim circles in the West for quite some time. I saw his books at every major Muslim bookstore I have ever been to, along with every single Muslim convention." Eteraz also did some digging into Yahya's backers and comes up with the following conclusions: "Harun Yahya is most likely a front [update: or ally] for Christian right-wing's version of Creationism. Funny thing is that Harun Yahya seems to be using the Christianists the same way they are using him." "American heathen" Hrafnkell at A Heathen's Day writes: "It's a shame really, when Islam led the way in science during the early Middle Ages, that they have turned their back on it and embraced unthinking religious fundamentalism instead."
Allah's Atlas: Turkish Islamist Adnan Oktar, going by the name Harun Yahya, is peddling what is, by all accounts, a gorgeous book of antiscientific bunkum. Atlas of Creation is his 12-pound, 800-page reply to Darwinism that suggests evolution is a sham since, well, species alive today are very much like those alive millions of years ago. No one's quite sure where Yahya gets the money for these free textbooks, though at least one blogger has a theory.
Muslim Humanist Ali Eteraz writes of Harun Yahya that he "has been stalking Muslim circles in the West for quite some time. I saw his books at every major Muslim bookstore I have ever been to, along with every single Muslim convention." Eteraz also did some digging into Yahya's backers and comes up with the following conclusions: "Harun Yahya is most likely a front [update: or ally] for Christian right-wing's version of Creationism. Funny thing is that Harun Yahya seems to be using the Christianists the same way they are using him." "American heathen" Hrafnkell at A Heathen's Day writes: "It's a shame really, when Islam led the way in science during the early Middle Ages, that they have turned their back on it and embraced unthinking religious fundamentalism instead."
