Have you heard of Harun Yahya, the writing pseudonym for Adnan Oktar? You will soon if you are into the creation vs. evolution debates.
He is doing the same as ID and Creationist proponents are doing in the US – encourage the fall of Darwin’s Theory of Evolution in favor of teaching Creationism in schools. So what’s the big deal? He’s doing it in Europe and to support Islam creationism.
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Unknown outside Muslim circles two years ago, Adnan Oktar — the 52-year-old Turk behind the pseudonym Harun Yahya — caught the attention of scientists and teachers in Europe and North America by mass-mailing them his 768-page “Atlas of Creation”.
His lavishly illustrated book preaches a Muslim version of creationism, the view scientists usually hear from Christian fundamentalists who say God created all life on earth just as it is today and oppose the teaching of Darwin’s evolution theory.
“Every academic I know says they’ve got one of those,” retired University of Edinburgh natural history professor Aubrey Manning told the Glasgow Herald when “The Atlas” turned up in Scotland early this year. “And it’s peddling an absolute, downright lie.”