The Creationist Delusion — Muslim Terrorists Are Really Darwinists
From a Spiegel article about Adnan Oktar aka Harun Yahya, the creationist cult leader in Turkey whose libel lawsuit recently led to the blocking of the world renowned scientist Richard Dawkins’ website in Turkey (click for entire article):
“In 20 years,” [Yahya] says in serious tone, “humanity will enter a golden age.” Yahya says that he discovered these joyful tidings in the Bible and the Koran. He maintains that it is a “scientific fact” that Jesus and Mahdi, the Muslim messiah, will return to mankind to solve all global conflicts. Beforehand, however, he says that these two heavenly emissaries will have to tackle another challenge: They must eradicate the heresy of British naturalist Charles Darwin, who postulated that all life arose from a process of natural selection.
As Yahya sees it, Darwinism is the root of all the world’s evils. In order to help rid the world of this theory, he has had thousands of copies of The Atlas of Creation printed and shipped around the world. This large-format 800-page tome aims to prove that there never was a natural evolution of species. Instead, it contends that all forms of life on earth have remained unchanged for millions of years. Brightly colored illustrations of fossils have been included so as to document the lack of so-called transitional forms….
Also see the Spiegel interview with Oktar/Yahya. Click here. Excerpt:
[W]hen we look at the present day, we see that all the members of terrorist organizations — even those that portray themselves as Muslim organizations — are Darwinists, atheists. That is to say, a faithful person who prays regularly does not go and plant bombs here and there. It is just people who pretend to be Muslims, those who depict themselves as Muslims, who perpetrate bombings, or Darwinists who make it clear that they are terrorists or communists who commit terrorism. Consequently, they are all Darwinists.
For a slighltly more sophisticated arguments about the role of Darwin in the Muslim-West tension and what the West ought to do, see this by Oktar’s former spokesperson:
http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/akyol200512010817.asp
This would be the same author who offered the popularity of expensive brand-name headscarves as evidence of harmlessness of some Muslims here. That, of course, has nothing to do with materialism at all.
There seems to be a cross-cultural continuity between creationists in the US and in Europe, that basically nothing they ever say or write is true. Since creationism is essentially entirely religiously motivated, one wonders how honest these people are in the rest of their lives? Do the holy books they claim to read not teach honesty and integrity? Or is the creationist world view so obviously untrue, that what one is witnessing is pure cynicism under the protection of a religious umbrella, ala Ted Haggard?
I hadn’t known about the fishing lure advertised as an insect in the Atlas of Creation until I read about in on Richard Dawkins’ website. How fitting as an example of creationist ineptitude. Or is it cynicism?