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We do have some LGF readers who are creationists, so we would be remiss if we didn’t bring to your attention a chance to win a prize of 100,000 new Turkish lira (about $63,191.14 US at current exchange rates), in a scientific essay contest being held by Turkish creationist Harun ...
Evolution, Creationism, Religion, Intelligent Design, Science, Turkey, Harun Yahya, Islam
Turkish Islamic creationist Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar) is interviewed by Spiegel Online, and says that “All Terrorists Are Darwinists.” Oktar: Darwinism has laid the groundwork for Hitler’s and Mussolini’s fascism and Stalin’s communism. And when we look at the present day, we see that all the members of terrorist ...
Evolution, Creationism, Religion, Intelligent Design, Science, Turkey, Harun Yahya, Islam
The Turkish crackpot creationist known as Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar) has actually succeeded in getting a court order to block Turkey’s access to the web site of British biologist Richard Dawkins. Ankara - Turkish internet users have been blocked via a court order from accessing the site of prominent ...
Turkey, Evolution, Creationism, Harun Yahya, adnan oktar, richard dawkins, Internet
The director of education at Britain’s Royal Society, Professor Michael Reiss, wants to open up British science classes to discussion of creationism. He says that in his experience it is more effective to include discussion about creationism alongside scientific theories such as the Big Bang and evolution. “An ...
LGF, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science, Religion, Creationism, Islam, Harun Yahya
Bruce Chapman of the Discovery Institute says I made false claims about them, but he doesn’t actually dispute a single fact in my LGF article. I was going to ignore this post at their anti-evolution blog, but on second reading it struck me as a pretty good example of the ...
LGF, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science, Religion, Creationism, Institute for Creation Research, Harun Yahya, discovery institute, Turkey, AKP
As we noted yesterday, Imam Siraj Wahhaj (named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing) is planning a series of subway train advertisements in Manhattan—during September—proselytizing for Islam. The organization behind this effort runs the web site whyislam.org, and featured prominently on their homepage we find: ...
LGF, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science, Religion, Creationism, Institute for Creation Research, Harun Yahya, discovery institute, Siraj Wahhaj, Terrorism
Last year CBC radio had a segment devoted to Islamic creationism in Turkey, with some amazing revelations: * The Institute for Creation Research has been heavily involved with Turkish creationists for years, supplying propaganda and teaching materials and DVDs, to the point where Turkey’s school system has purged the teaching ...
Turkey, discovery institute, Harun Yahya, Institute for Creation Research, Creationism, Religion, Science, Intelligent Design, Evolution, LGF
In Israel, Hebrew University canceled a “reconciliation conference” with a group of Turkish Muslim “scholars” when they learned that the Turks planned to include anti-evolution propaganda. Notice the deceptive tactics, very reminiscent of the work of the Discovery Institute. They don’t mention the name of the Muslim organization, but it ...
LGF, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science, Religion, Creationism, Institute for Creation Research, Harun Yahya, Israel
The New Humanist has an article on the Islamic creationist group led by Turkish kook Harun Yahya (nee Adnan Oktar), and their mysteriously well-funded efforts to promote the anti-science agenda in Europe: Western front. Examples cited of a growing creationist influence ranged from subtle downgrading of evolution in science ...
LGF, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science, Religion, Creationism, Institute for Creation Research, Harun Yahya
Here’s an interesting article with lots of detail on the Turkish radical Islamic creationist Harun Yahya (real name: Adnan Oktar), who has joined forces with US creationist groups like the Institute for Creation Research, to promote their Dark Ages anti-science agenda around the world: Muslim creationist preaches Islam and awaits ...
LGF, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science, Religion, Creationism, Institute for Creation Research, Harun Yahya
One hundred fifty years ago today, a paper was read to the Linnaean Society of London, and the scientific theory of evolution was born. Darwin was still working on his magnum opus when in June 1858 he received a letter from an English naturalist working in Malaysia. Alfred Russel ...
LGF, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science, Religion, Creationism, New Zealand, Institute for Creation Research, Harun Yahya