[asa] A new anti-evolution book

The web site

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/17/science/17book.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

has a NYT article on a new book, apparently distributed free of charge
world wide, espousing a creationist view.

Interesting article. It begins:

"In the United States, opposition to the teaching of evolution in public
schools has largely been fueled by the religious right, particularly
Protestant fundamentalism. “Atlas of Creation,” by Adnan Oktar of Turkey,
is turning up, unsolicited, in mailboxes of scientists.
 
The book says that creatures today are just like creatures that lived in
the fossil past, so evolution must be impossible.
Now another voice is entering the debate, in dramatic fashion. It is the
voice of Adnan Oktar of Turkey, who, under the name Harun Yahya, has
produced numerous books, videos and DVDs on science and faith, in
particular what he calls the “deceit” inherent in the theory of
evolution. One of his books, “Atlas of Creation,” is turning up,
unsolicited, in mailboxes of scientists around the country and members of
Congress, and at science museums in places like Queens and Bemidji, Minn.

At 11 x 17 inches and 12 pounds, with a bright red cover and almost 800
glossy pages, most of them lavishly illustrated, “Atlas of Creation” is
probably the largest and most beautiful creationist challenge yet to
Darwin’s theory, which Mr. Yahya calls a feeble and perverted ideology .
. . ."

Burgy
www.burgy.50megs.com/one.htm
(Review of ONE WORLD, The Interaction of Science and Theology, by John C.
Polkinghorne)

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Received on Wed Jul 18 13:52:30 2007