Massive unsolicited diffusion of anti-evolution book in French schools
Saturday, February 3rd, 2007
Schools across France have received several thousand unsolicited copies of an “atlas” which advocates Islamic creationism theories, according to the Education Ministry. Stuff.co.nz says:
The lavishly illustrated Atlas of Creation by Harun Yahya, a shadowy figure who runs a large Islamic publishing operation from Istanbul, was sent to schools and universities over the past 10 days. The Turkish original of the 768-page book, which rejects evolution, first appeared in Turkey late last year when it was also sent unsolicited to schools. It sees Charles Darwin’s theory of the “survival of the fittest” as the root of many of today’s ills, including modern terrorism.
The large-format, lavishly illustrated book, is meant to show that current animal species look exactly like the fossils of their ancestors. It appears to have been mailed from Turkey and Germany to schools all around France, a project of Harun Yahya, otherwise known as the Islamic teacher Adnan Oktar.
The Atlas of Creation puts an Islamic twist on criticism of the theory of evolution, a cause usually associated with conservative Christians in the United States.
