An Islamic Gift To Schools: An Anti-darwinian Book

One Italian news portal operating on the Internet carried a report published on 4 June, 2007, in daily Corriere della Sera, one of the largest newspapers in Italy, on that same day. The report described how Harun Yahya’s Atlas of Creation had found its way to a large number of Italian institutions and how before Italy it had been sent to several other European countries (France, Germany, Switzerland, Britain, The Netherlands). Some of the important information carried in the report read as follows:

… Italy has been invaded by hundreds, maybe thousands of copies of the first, large 800-page volume of a book printed on top quality, glossy paper and weighing some 6 kilos…

A colleague of mine from daily Mezzogiorno told me on 31 May that the Atlas of Creation had been dispatched to a school in Altamura. I looked it up on the Internet and learned that the book had previously been sent to France, Germany, Switzerland, Britain and The Netherlands. Hundreds of thousands of copies had overflowed Europe…

… Oktar’s powerful strategy was highly effective: the results of an opinion poll by the TurkishAcademy of Sciences show that 75% of Turkish middle and high school students no longer believe in the theory of evolution…

In the appendix to the book, the author maintains that “Islam is the solution to terrorism, not its source,” and that “the solution to individuals and groups attempting to apply their own ruthlessness under a religious guise is the teaching of true Qur’anic moral values.” Another extract indicates that Oktar is a supporter of the global Masonic conspiracy theory…

At the same time, a competition has arisen between creationists of Christian origin centered in the United States and those of Islamic origin who have preoccupied us with the Atlas of Creation. We cannot know which of these will prevail, we do know for certain that we will be the losers…