A Revelatory Book: The Evolution Deceit

The Guardian, one of Britain’s main dailies, carried an article by Inayat Bunglawala, an Assistant Secretary-General at the Muslim Council of Britain, on its web site on 3 July, 2006. The article contained the following praise for Harun Yahya’s work:  

“… in recent years expensively produced glossy literature and DVDs arguing for the direct creation and fixity of species have also become very popular in many Muslim communities in the UK and Europe. The material disseminated largely originates from Turkey and are the works of a Turkish philosopher, Adnan Oktar, who writes prolifically under the pen name of Harun Yahya.

Harun Yahya"s books, website and DVDs are all very professionally presented in a manner clearly designed to impress.

I first came across a Harun Yahya publication, The Evolution Deceit around seven years ago and to my untrained eyes it was revelatory. Full of colour illustrations and written in lucid prose with plenty of quotations and references from the writings of prominent scientists, it seemed to make it clear that Darwin"s theory of evolution by means of natural selection was being exposed throughout the world as a fraud perpetrated by materialists seeking to undermine belief in God. When examined dispassionately, the actual evidence from the fossil record consistently showed creatures that were fully formed - there was no evidence for species evolving gradually into successor species….”