Sex, flies and videotape: the secret lives of Harun Yahya
Source: New Humanist
Muslim creationist, cult leader, Dawkins’ nemesis, messiah. Halil Ardatracks down the real Harun Yahya
This article is also available in Turkish – Adnan Oktar’nin gercek yuzunu gormek icin, buraya tiklayin
Inspired by the high profile of its Christian American counterpart, Muslim creationism is becoming increasingly visible and confident. On scores of websites and in dozens of books with titles like The Evolution Deceit and The Dark Face of Darwinism, a new and well-funded version of evolution-denialism, carefully calibrated to exploit the current fashion for religiously inspired attacks on scientific orthodoxy and “militant” atheism, seems to have found its voice. In a recent interview with The Times Richard Dawkins himself recognises the impact of this new phenomenon: “There has been a sharp upturn in hostility to teaching evolution in the classroom and it’s mostly coming from Islamic students.”
The patron saint of this new movement, the ubiquitous “expert” cited and referenced by those eager to demonstrate the superiority of “Koranic science” over “the evolution lie”, is the larger-than-life figure of Harun Yahya.
Harun Yahya
Operating from Istanbul, Yahya is the founder of the Science Research Foundation, an impressive publishing empire that boasts more than 60 websites dedicated to his writings. It provides documentary films and audio recordings in fifteen languages, including Turkish, English, Russian, Amharic and Arabic, and claims to sell more than half a million books a year, including the infamous 850-page, fully illustrated Atlas of Creation, which was sent free in two volumes to dozens of universities, libraries and prominent scientists (including Richard Dawkins) across the world. In painstaking detail, with a mass of photos, graphs and statistics interspersed with verses from the Koran, the Atlas purports to prove that Darwin was utterly mistaken, that each plant and animal was created intact, and that no modification through natural selection ever took place.
Categories: Arab World, Asia, Evolution
Well, articles by Harun Yahya appear in ARABNEWS.com and many other places and, yes, I posted many of them to The Muslim Times, as the articles themselves sound good. I feel it my duty therefore to also publish this article which gives another side of Harun Yahya. “And Allah knows best”. – But anyway, it confirms one thing. Without Allah’s blessings nothing can succeed. And Allah’s blessings are of course with the Khalifa appointed by Him: see http://www.alislam.org (and continue reading The Muslim Times!).
Please stop promoting Ahmadiya Islam, if you believe in Mirza Ghulam Ahmed as a prophet after Prophet Muhammed (SAW) then you and the community you are a part of , are traitors. And promoting something thats’ not true.
Many Thanks!
JazakAllah
It is a bit strange that most people who oppose Hadhrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad as a non-law-bearing Prophet are happy to accept that Issa (as) will come again after Mohammad (may peace and blessings of Allah be with him).
I do not know the political details. I hope Harun Yahya is a good man. I just want to argue against his “creationism,” and illustrated guided evolution:
Exposing Creationism of Zakir Naik, Tahir ul Qadari, Yusuf Estes and Harun Yahya
It seems Harun Yahya’s crime is challenging the creed of evolution. Those who disagree with his views on creationism have more than a hard time undermining that position with evidence from their quran.
I have little or nothing in common with Harun Yahya but, as far as the quran is concerned, the man is correct. He cannot be faulted.
Evolutionist may believe in whatever they choose to. But they should not count on the quran for support, for there is none.