Atlas of Creation
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Harun Yahya is the Muslim world's leading creationist.
It may be strange for a Christian (me) to play tag with a Muslim, but the God of the Old Testament, the Creator, is the God of the Muslims, too.
Yahya takes a beating in the West, including charges of extortion and sexual abuse and to be sure, scientists everywhere are not likely to fall in love with the guy. Consider the source of the above.
According to Slate.com - "Two years ago he mailed, unsolicited, a visually stunning 13-pound, 800-page Atlas of Creation to at least 10,000 scientists, doctors, museums, and research centers in Europe and the United States."
The source of his funding is one of speculation:
Saudi donors, wealthy Turks...
Slate goes on, "Creationist stories are now popping up in Turkish high-school science textbooks, and some government officials in the AKP, the ruling Islamic party, freely criticize evolution. In Ankara, the government's point man on religious issues, Mehmet Gormez, told me (Slate writer), 'All the holy texts say human beings are created by God. I think evolutionary theory is not scientific, but ideological.'"
Muslim countries are predominantly creationist and Turkey is becoming or maybe already is the hub of global opposition to evolution.
Says Slate, According to Science magazine, in 2006, just one in four Turks accepted the theory of natural selection. This rate was the lowest among 34 countries. The second least likely country to accept the fallacious theory - the United States.
See:You can teach evolution, but you can't make folk believe it & You can teach evolution, but you can't make folk believe it - part 2.
Muslims and Christians may be strange partners when it comes to the fray of evolutionism vs creationism. But, indeed the Christians need not fight the battle alone. In fact, the Creator, for what it's worth, need not be defended on any front by anyone. I AM that I AM sounds a whole lot like HE IS what HE IS.
Comments
wow bill - i had some trouble swallowing your statement "the God of the Old Testament, the Creator, is the God of the Muslims, too" - but of course, your right - He is the God of All. (The fact that muslims have not worshiped Him throughout their entire history does not change that!). I went to their web site & perused this "Atlas of Creation" - its quite fantastic, although Yahya does seem to adhere to the evolutionist time frame throughout (3.9 billion year old precambrian fossils?!), with the unavoidable inconsistencies, ie: he refers to the "Cambrian Explosion" of fossils as evidence of the time of creation, "at the very beginning", but still at some 500 million years ago, in their 4 billion year timescale. (Maybe he holds to several 'creations'?) Anyway - it is a very well written & illustrated volume, now in over 20 editions, in some 12 languages!? - & to 'give away' 10000 copies?!? That is some massive funding! Wouldn't it be nice if someone would fund a Christian ver!
skyjack writes:"Wouldn't it be nice if someone would fund a Christian ver!" Really? Is spreading deception and nonsense so valuable?
A beautiful production doesn't indicate reliable content. Of course this compendium of falsehood was taken mostly from the Christian ignorance project Christians run.
Bill, you do realize that this guy runs a cult don't you? If your envious of his works and have the charisma, you could always start your own cult.
There are plenty of more recent articles that deal with his cult and its origins out there. Slate has more recent articles on him that get into it.
Bill, please be more selective of your heroes.
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