Reuters , one of the world\u00e2\u0080\u0099s biggest news agencies, issued an article of Tom Heneghan on November 22,. (News from Reuters News Agency reach 1 billion people a day) The report under the headline \u00e2\u0080\u009cCreation vs. Darwin takes Muslim twist in Turkey\u00e2\u0080\u009d included evolution themed works of world-famous writer Harun Yahya and how evolution belief lost ground in Turkey in the recent years. This report found a wide echo in various newspapers including Washington Post, the most important newspaper of USA, and anarray of prominent news sites includen MSNBC, YahooNews, AolNews. Some remarks are as follows:<\/p>\n
A lavishly illustrated \u201cAtlas of Creation\u201d is mysteriously turning up at schools and libraries in Turkey, proclaiming that Charles Darwin\u2019s theory of evolution is the real root of terrorism.<\/p>\n
Arriving unsolicited by post, the large-format tome offers 768 glossy pages of photographs and easy-to-read text to prove that God created the world with all its species.<\/p>\n
At first sight, it looks like it could be the work of United States creationists, the Christian fundamentalists who believe the world was created in six days as told in the Bible.<\/p>\n
But the author\u2019s name, Harun Yahya, reveals the surprise inside. This is Islamic creationism, a richly funded movement based in predominantly Muslim Turkey which has an influence U.S. creationists could only dream of.<\/p>\n
Creationism is so widely accepted here that Turkey placed last in a recent survey of public acceptance of evolution in 34 countries \u2014 just behind the United States.<\/p>\n
\u201cDarwinism is dead,\u201d said Kerim Balci of the Fethullah Gulen network, a moderate Islamic movement with many publications and schools but no link to the creationists who produced the atlas.<\/p>\n
A DOSE OF RELIGION<\/p>\n
Like the Bible, the Koran says God made the world in six days and fashioned the first man, Adam, from dust. Other details vary but the idea is roughly the same.<\/p>\n
But unlike in the West, evolution theory has not undermined the traditional creation story for many Muslims.<\/p>\n
In 1985, a paragraph on creationism as an alternative to evolution was added to high school science textbooks and a U.S. book \u201cScientific Creationism\u201d was translated into Turkish.<\/p>\n
In the early 1990s, leading U.S. creationists came to speak at several anti-evolution conferences in Turkey.<\/p>\n
DARWIN AND TERROR<\/p>\n
Since then, a home-grown strain of anti-Darwinist books has developed with a clearly political message.<\/p>\n
\u201cAtlas of Creation\u201d offers over 500 pages of splendid images comparing fossils with present-day animals to argue that Allah created all life as it is and evolution never took place.<\/p>\n
Then comes a book-length essay arguing that Darwinism, by stressing the \u201csurvival of the fittest,\u201d has inspired racism, Nazism, communism and terrorism.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe root of the terrorism that plagues our planet is not any of the divine religions, but atheism, and the expression of atheism in our times (is) Darwinism and materialism,\u201d it says.<\/p>\n
One Istanbul school unexpectedly received three copies recently. \u201cIt\u2019s very well done, with magnificent photos \u2013 a very stylish tool of creationist propaganda,\u201d said the headmaster.<\/p>\n
The driving force behind these books is Adnan Oktar who over the past decade has published a flood of books under the pseudonym Harun Yahya.<\/p>\n
\u201cHarun Yahya has managed to create a media-based and popular form of creationism,\u201d said Taner Edis, a Turkish-born physicist at Truman State University in Missouri.<\/p>\n
Harun Yahya, has turned out over 200 books in Turkish and translated many of them into 51 other languages.<\/p>\n
Oktar, 50, appears on the group\u2019s Web site sporting a clipped beard and dapper suits. His works can be found in Islamic bookshops around the world and downloaded for free over the Internet.<\/p>\n
INTELLIGENT DESIGN<\/p>\n
Intelligent Design says some organisms are too complex to have evolved without some superior cause, but avoids calling that cause God because that would ban it from U.S. science textbooks.<\/p>\n
But most Turks show no interest because they see no need to avoid naming God.<\/p>\n
Other media which published this article:<\/p>\n
– Washington Post, USA, 22 November 2006<\/p>\n
– Indian Express, India, 23 November 2006<\/p>\n
– Times of India, India, 23 November 2006<\/p>\n
– Daily News & Analysis (DNA), India, 23 November 2006<\/p>\n
– Financial Express, India, 22 November 2006<\/p>\n
– Daily Times, Pakistan, 22 November 2006<\/p>\n
– Reuters.uk, UK, 22 November 2006<\/p>\n
– Reuters Canada, Canada, 22 November 2006<\/p>\n
– ABC News, 22 November 2006<\/p>\n
– MSNBC, 22 November 2006<\/p>\n
– Yahoo!News, 22 November 2006<\/p>\n
– AOLNews, 22 November 2006<\/p>\n
– RealTime.com, 22 November 2006<\/p>\n
– RichardDawkins.net, 25 November 2006<\/p>\n
– Alarab online, UK, 22 November 2006<\/p>\n
– ShortNews.com, Germany, 22 November 2006<\/p>\n
– NewsMax.com, USA, 22 November 2006<\/p>\n
– History News Network, USA, 22 November 2006<\/p>\n
– Free Republic.com, USA, 22 November 2006<\/p>\n
– Mercado Digital, Arjantin, 26 November 2006<\/p>\n
Under the pen name of Harun Yahya, Adnan Oktar has written some 250 works. His books contain a total of 46,000 pages and 31,500 illustrations. Of these books, 7,000 pages and 6,000 illustrations deal with the collapse of the Theory of Evolution. You can read, free of charge, all the books Adnan Oktar has written under the pen name Harun Yahya on these websites www.harunyahya.com<\/p>\n
via Echo-usa – Total oil energy efficiency – Shell alternative energy – Reuters (istanbul): Harun Yahya, Has an Influence U.s. Creationists | Bethel Seminary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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