Spiffy Books Misleads on Evolution (Shariah version of Intelligent Design)
Writing under the name Harun Yahya, Oktar has written a massive, beautifully illustrated and rather troubling book, “Atlas of Creation.” This is the kind of book, in size and shape, you might use to press flowers. It weighs about 10 pounds. It’s printed on heavy, glossy paper and must have cost a fortune to publish.
Setting aside that Oktar has blamed Jews and Freemasons for trying to contaminate Turkish culture, and has written off the Holocaust as an unfortunate typhus epidemic, the book is more than a little on the creepy side.
The size and sophistication of the volume suggests that Oktar must have a lot of money, and hence influence in some quarters.
Oktar’s thesis, such as it is, claims that Charles Darwin was wrong about evolution.
By extension, he also challenges virtually all modern biology. His argument is that Darwin predicted intermediate forms of life, as evolution proceeded from simple organisms to more complicated ones, and that no such fossils have been found.
We know such fossils indeed have been found, and that modern anatomical and genetic similarities between organisms support evolution.