Harun Yahya, the Muslim world's leading creationist and 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.