Atlas of Creation

Astronomer Mike Merrifield - a regular on our other channel sixtysymbols - responds to YouTubers' comments about a book on his shelf!

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Science & Technology

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• creation
• evolution
• astronomy
• sixty
• symbols

[jacksawild]

Let us take a look of the bookshelf of a creationist. Do we think there will be a copy of Euclid's elements? Isaac Newton's Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica? Einstein's writings? Hawkins? How about Hubble? Will there, in fact, be anything other than that which they already propound? Maybe a fundamentalist Christian might have the Koran up there, or Hindu vedic texts. Prof Merrifield is demonstrating intellectual honesty here, good for him.

[milosQaX]

If only more creationists thought like this... we would probably have less of them :D.

[F5S7N9]

What a proper human being

[aluisious]

I spotted that book in videos and just assumed it was there roughly for interest's sake, like a curio. The fact that it is a Muslim creationist book is interesting. I encountered a couple of those folks in my undergrad days, it at least makes for a change of pace versus the Christian fundies.

[ErizotDread]

@weberbeat

I disagree...a baby wouldn't understand the insult, so it wouldn't be bothered by it. An insult is pretty empty if the person being insulted has no idea they're being insulted and/or aren't hurt by it.

[OrCkHaNtheGrEaT]

@av733 yes, indeed harun yahya send free copies like that.

[AlohaBay]

@jacksawild Apology accepted.

[Aviatorsmith]

This is what differentiates an atheist and a creationist. Many creationists I know and most on youtube blatantly disregard anything disagreeing with them. They do not bother to think about what they do not know and claim that what they know is enough to disprove others. Mike is a classic example of what an intellect would do. Study the offending text and come up with a good stand against the others.

[ZombifiedGuitarist]

Mike Merrifield = SMART >: D

[Quintinohthree]

@snakeguy76

My secondary school biology teacher was sent a copy of the Atlas of Creation too.

[weberbeat]

@MrNewkingjames It's unfair to insult babies, they can't defend themselves.

[weberbeat]

Would the astronomer have a book about astronomy on his bookshelf, with beautiful pictures of galaxies, if it said, they were not further than 10000 ly away? Or a picture of mars, labeled as a comet? The "Atlas of Creation" by Harun Yahya (aka Adnan Oktar) is the exact biological analogue of that!

A scientist shouldn't judge a book by its pictures but use his brain even if it's about an exotic field like biology!