Richard Dawkins debunks "Atlas Of Creation" by Harun Yahya (3/4)

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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[baharsahin]

@Orkaney I am from turkey and his books are very popular in here. When I talk my friends about evolution, they usually say "what are you talking about? we are all muslims and we believe what was written in the koran." others say "I read Harun yahya and Darwin's Theory of Evolution is just a hoax."I cant believe what my friends say. They persist in not believing in science. I dont think they know Mr.Dawkins. They refuse to do research. harun yahya has lost of fans in my country. I hate him.

[maroom1]

Hahaha !!! Half-crocodile and half-squirrel !!!! Half-starfish and half-fish ?!!

Harun Yahya is a big joke. He doesn't even know what transitional fossils are supposed to be !!!! LOL

It funny to see Muslims seriously believe that this man have really debunked evolution. LOL !

[superhamzah85]

@LogicIsLogical

Underpants Gnomes....O_O

[kajmmer]

@lucidatheist fuck off 

[DrSpooglemon]

@geokonti would Jesus say those things? What kind of a christian are you?

[LogicIsLogical]

@geokonti

Step 1:Look up ad hominem attacks in the dictionary.

Step 2:Look up logical reasoning on wiki.

Step 3:???

Step 4:Profit.

[TheSkunkCat]

I think that question 'Are we the end product of evolution' is actually very very very simple to answer.

The answer is 'no'.

Evolution is a continuous process, simply because DNA does not copy itself perfectly. Therefor in every circumstances some evolution inevitably occurs. (Which is why I always laugh my ass off at people who think the human race could last for five billion years. (That's over eight times from the CAMBRIAN to now, timewise)

[geokonti]

Dawkins is just a deluded fool!!! And how stupid must you be to actually believe this stupid fucking asshole???!!! Just an arrogant piece of shit who presents only theories with no actual proof!!! And why the hell you don't wanna debate wioth creationists because you know you would lose you dumbass!!!

[TheRationalizer]

People who believe Harun Yahya aren't interested in the truth, they just want someone to reassuringly pat them on the back and say "there there, uncle will take away the nasty evidence"