Dawkins debunks Harun Yahya 4of4

Richard Dawkins debunks the publication "Atlas Of Creation" by Harun Yahya (aka) Adnan Oktar.

In September 2008 Oktar issued a challenge offering "10 trillion Turkish lira to anyone who produces a single intermediate-form fossil demonstrating evolution". Biologist PZ Myers responded: "The US government should immediately send a plane to pick up Mr Oktar, bring him to our country, and take him on a guided tour of the Smithsonian and the American Museum of Natural History, accompanied by Niles Eldredge, Kevin Padian, Jerry Coyne, Sean Carroll, and the entire scientific staff of those museums. Afterwards, they can accept the check from Mr Oktar, run down to the local bank and cash it, and use one trillion dollars to resolve the current financial crisis, seven trillion can be sunk immediately into the American educational system, and they can send the change left over to me as a reward for coming up with this brilliant plan." Oktar's offer is similar to creationist Kent Hovind's $250,000 offer[29], which has been dismissed by creationists and scientists as a misleading gimmick where those who applied for the challenge have questioned his sincerity about paying and understanding of evolution.

His latest publication, The Atlas of Creation, was published by Global Publishing, Istanbul, Turkey in October 2006. Tens of thousands of copies of the book have been delivered, on an unsolicited basis, to schools, prominent researchers and research institutes throughout Europe and the United States. The arguments used by the book to undermine evolution have been criticized as not logical while evolutionary biologist Kevin Padian has stated that Oktar has no understanding of the basic evidence for evolution. Biologist PZ Myers wrote: "The general pattern of the book is repetitious and predictable: the book shows a picture of a fossil and a photo of a living animal, and declares that they haven't changed a bit, therefore evolution is false. Over and over. It gets old fast, and it's usually wrong (they have changed!) and the photography, while lovely, is entirely stolen."

The book contains a number of factual errors, such as the misidentification of a sea snake as an eel (two unrelated species) and in two places uses images of fishing-lures copied from the internet instead of actual species. A number of other modern species are mislabelled

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[Dhalsim06]

I've been a theist ever since I can remember, yet I've never discounted science as false or a lie.

As a kid I was fascinated with dinosaurs, that they lived millions and millions of years ago and that this earth is itself billions of years, I've always found that amazing.

I asked my gran once, when I was very young, who came first, Adam & Eve or "the cavemen"? She chuckled and explained that Adam & Eve was simply a story they used to tell round the camp fire. I was shaken but I accepted it...

[derek24hudson]

The fact that some animals or plants show little or no change is PREDICTED by EVOLUTION. EVOLUTION is not a ladder, up which species MUST CLIMB. If an environment remains STATIC and UNCHANGING there is no pressure for adaptation, so no change will ensue. This is predicted by natural selection. But 99% of ALL species that have ever lived are extinct, through catastrophy or 'failure' to adapt. Some 'design'! How many billions of creatures have lived and died; for what 'purpose'? So wasteful!

[DiGa25]

i watched all four parts hoping for a scientific answer to some of Harun Yahya's serious arguments (despite the stupid and silly pictures he used in his atlas) but all I found is a personal attack on and loads of making fun of the pictures!

[WaltonSauce]

@iworkforme

Creationist votebots.

[iworkforme]

how does his series have so many thumbs down??

[AlanCFA]

@Gazdo01 "Ape is the name given to all of the above, EXCEPT for humans"

Wikipedia

In recent years biologists have preferred to use only monophyletic groups in classifications, that is only groups which include all the descendants of a common ancestor…Hominoidea is one such group. Biologists use the term 'ape' to mean all the members of the superfamily Hominoidea

See M. Benton's textbook: The apes, Hominoidea, today include the gibbons and orangutan, the gorilla and chimpanzee, and humans

[Gazdo01]

@josefino08 I'm happy to hear about Mr Linnaeus correspondance... But it is possible that he is wrong as well. I was only stating what myself have found in my reading.

Maybe Linnaeus couldn't not find any genereic charactic toi distinguish between man and ape. Does not change what I was saying, i.e. the CLASSIFICATION exists, in which humans are NOT considered to be apes...

I wasn't so much of an argument "against Dawkins" by the way. Just saying that it is always good to double check info.

[josefino08]

@Gazdo01 Your argument against Dawkins is very week. Carl Linnaeus, the Swedish scientist who created the binomial system of classifying plants and animals according to genus and species wrote to a fellow naturalist that he could not find any generic character...by which to distinguish between man and ape. But realizing the delicate nature of the issue, Linnaeus decided to place humans in the separate Homo. So, ALL you said is actually untrue.

[Gazdo01]

What Dawkins said about humans being apes is not entirely correct. In fact, gibbons, orangutans, gorillas, chimpanzees and humans are all part of the hominoidea superfamily, a term that means we have a vertebral column, but no tail, our last vertebra having been fused together to produce the coccyx.

Ape is the name given to all of the above, EXCEPT for humans. Some even divide these into "great" and "lesser" apes.

I really enjoyed listening to Dawkins, but not ALL he says is actually true.

[marcmeup1]

Yah-ya WHAT-EVA! more like. George Galloway's evil muslim twin.

[drrobertoboogie97]

@coolvideo28 I've read the Bible. I'll send you my favorite verses from it as a personal message.

[coolvideo28]

@drrobertoboogie97 I never said call me names. You obviously know nothing about the bible because you completly lied. If you have nothing to bring to the table so you have to run to your spell checker then get a life because this is a comment section not an essay contest. You dont even have a youtube channel or at least its not accesible. what are you just a troll ?